Design Considerations
Requirements Gathering
Envisionment Methods
Evaluation
Other
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Cognitive Walkthrough
What is Cognitive Walkthrough?
- Cognitive Walkthrough is a expert analysis of a series of tasks.
- Users are not needed
- Expert puts themselves in users shoes and steps through the task sequence
Why Use it
Cognitive Walkthrough aims to look at how easy and obvious goals and actions
are and to highlight areas of possible confusion
- Is it obvious what to do?
- Will people formulate the right goals? -
- Will they realise a goal has been achieved?
- Will they undertake inappropriate goals?
- Will they inadvertently kill off some higher or related goal?
- Is it obvious how to do it?
- Will people identify the correct actions?
- Will the action contribute to achieving the goal?
- Do actions match people’s goals?
- Are there physical difficulties performing actions?
What are goals, tasks and actions?
- A Goal is something someone is trying to achieve - write a letter
- A task is the sequence of activities required, used or believed to
be necessary to achieve a goal using a particular device. Tasks may be
split into sub-tasks. - Open New Document, Type letter
- Actions - the physical interactions with a device - click on ‘new’
icon, select tab icon, move to right hand side, etc. etc.
Participants Needed
Experts
Several (3 or 4) experts are required.
Task List
- List out each action of the goal
- For each action that is shown, consider how easy is it for users to
identify what to do and how to do it.
- Write these in using endnotes or differently formatted text.
Conditions required
Examples
- Cognitive Walkthrough
for creating and linking a hotspot in dreamweaver
- Cognitive Walkthrough
for Programming the VCR
Limitations Of method
Exercise
Do a cognitive walkthrough for
- Logging off your computer
Reading