Locate a HOME page of a website Evaluate a website according

Locate a HOME page of a website. Evaluate a website according to these 25 principles (common goals for good user interface design). Do look for sites that have problems – there are at least five which are rated fair or none. Indicate (none, fair, good, excellent) in regard to fifteen of the principles. Write at least 3 sentences explaining your reasons for the rating of the principle.

Site URL: _________________________________________________________

Description of clientele: ______________________________________________________________

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Product or service URL provides: _____________________________________________________

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1.   Accessibility -- ______________

2.   Aesthetically Pleasing --   ______________

3.   Availability -- ______________

4.   Clarity -- ______________

5.   Compatibility -- _____________

6.   Configurability -- _____________

7.   Consistency -- _______________

8.   Control -- _______________

9.   Directness -- _____________

10. Efficiency -- ____________

11. Familiarity -- ____________

12. Flexibility -- ____________

13. Forgiveness -- ___________

14. Immersion -- ______________

15. Comprehensibility/Obviousness -- ______________

16. Operability -- ______________

17. Perceptibility -- ______________

18. Predictability -- ____________

19. Recovery -- ___________

20. Responsiveness --   _____________

21. Safety -- ______________

22. Simplicity -- ____________

23. Transparency -- ____________

24. Trade-Offs -- _____________

25. Visibility -- ______________

Submit your assignment as a document. Include the URL, description of clientele, and product or service as part of your post.

Solution

Site URL:WWW.gmail.com

service :electronic mail service

1.Accessibility:good

reason:we have a well defined user interface and password.which provides good security to personal mailss.

2.Aesthetically pleasing:good

reson:look and feel is pleasing.Its good,friendly and professional

3.Avalaibilty:excellent

reason:the website is always avalaible for giving service to its customers.Anytime we can open and use this mail service.

4.clarity:good

reason:there is no scope for confusion (ambiguities) for any features in this website

5:compatablity:excellent:

This website works well with all operating systems,browsers without any problems or ambiguities.all its features are avalaible with all browsers and operating systems.

6.configurability:fair

configuring the mail to come to our personal email holder is little tricky.all the setting items are avalaible but usage is not guided properly.scope of providing tutorial for configuration can be made

7.consistancy:good

website is very consistant in all platforms

8.control:good

website has very good hold over its operations

9.directnes:good

10.efficiency:excellent

It provides good interface for storing large quantity of mails and hence very efficient .evern searching mechanism is also avalaible.time is saved in searching mails too due to segregation of mails of different categories

11.familiarity:good

12.flexiblity:good

website is very familiar and flexible to use .most of its elements are known to us in general words.

13.forgiveness:good

14.immersion:

15.obviousness:good

most of the feaaatures can be easily understood

16.operatability:good

easy to operate the features.it is fast.

17.perceptability:good

it des not give a fault .takes instructions given to it accurately

18.predictability:good

It has address book feature,where when we enter the part of email address.It guesses the other part of the email.we can just select from the predicted emails.because of this we need not waste time on writing the entire emailc addreess.

19.recovery:excellent

we can recover emails in case they are accidently deleted.It has a inbuilt folder called as trash where deleted emails are stored for 30 days.so important mail will not be deleted easily or permanently unless trash is cleared

20.responsiveness.fair

it is quick.In case mail fails to reach the recepient,it bounces back to the sender and alerts him with a failure message regarding the status of mail.but impovement has to be done in attachment part which is normally slow

21.safety:good

It has double checking authentication mechanism in case password is forgotten.In order to pass this authentication user many details are required which is not possible to obtain easily for others.It has inbuilt virus scanner

22.simplicity:excellent

website is simple to use.website options are in general words.we also can segrgate mails into different categories .

we can also mark mails which are important,also distinguish between read anbd unread mails.

23.transparency:good

24.trade-offs:none

25.visibility:good