Lecture 6: Usability Flashcards

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What is usability?

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Usability is the extent to which a product can be used by specified users to achieve specified goals with effectiveness, efficiency, and satisfaction in a specified context of use.
Usability is a quality attribute that assesses how easy interfaces are to use. There is quality where there is an absence of problems.

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What are the SIX general usability principles?

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  1. Learnability
  2. Visibility
  3. User Control and Freedom
  4. Error Handling
  5. Effiency
  6. Graphic Design
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