Multimedia Project Development

  Today we had looked at Multimedia Project Development. We looked at general principals for user interface design which are called "heuristics" because they are more in the nature of rules of thumb than specific usability guidelines We looked at ten of them and then had to look at a On-line Application which was Hotmail.com and we had to write about its heuristics. I have the file attached to this post if you wish to view it and comment. :




The different headings that I used for my assignment.

 

• Visibility of System Status
  
• Match between system and the real world
  
• User control and freedom
  
• Consistency and Standards
  
• Error Prevention
  
• Recognition rather than recall
  
• Flexibility and efficiency of use
  
• Aesthetic and minimalist design
  
• Help users recognize, diagnose, and recover from error
  
• Help and documentation
  

These where the headings that we used for this assignment. When we went onto the application we looked for the appropriate information and design features to match the headings.

 

 

Evaluation of Hotmail Application

Hotmail is an online application that can be used worldwide to send people messages, pictures, links and music. Many people use it because it is efficient, reliable and easy to use.

The design features on this application where very user friendly and very easy to understand as the English was simple and plain which made browsing and finding items quite easy and efficient. It also saved time as you weren't looking around the homepage and the inbox for tabs to click on.

The emails where easy to handy too as they where categorised and you could make folders to store different emails in and this was done automatically so you didn't waste time dragging and copying into the folders.

Advertisement was also cut very short which was a plus as it didn't put a strain on your eyes and enabled you to stay on the application a lot longer. As you can see this makes Hotmail very user friendly to people of all ages.

 

 

I have had to summarise the assignment for the blog as it would have been too long to read and this is only a shortened version.