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New heuristics for understanding older adults as web users

Why the article is helpful

  • Outlines a set of 20 heuristics for evaluating websites for older users
  • Compares their heuristics to other existing heuristics
  • Step-by-step methodology of persona-based and task-based heuristic review

 

This article evaluated how well websites work for older users and developed a new set of 20 heuristic and guidelines. The authors listed how their heuristics differ from others existing heuristics and pointed out specific conflicting issues, as well as described a step-by-step methodology for persona-based and task-based heuristic reviews.

 

Links to article

 

Chisnell, D. E., Redish, J., & Lee, A. (2006). New heuristics for understanding older adults as web users. Technical Communication, 53(1), 39-59.