List five standards that can aid in evaluating user interfaces.

What will be an ideal response?


The five useful standards in evaluating the interfaces are:

A. The necessary training period for users should be acceptably short.
B. Users early in their training should be able to enter commands without thinking about them, or referring to a help menu or manual.
C. The interface should be “seamless” so that errors are few, and those that do occur are not occurring because of poor design.
D. Time necessary for users and the system to bounce back from errors should be short.
E. Infrequent users should be able to relearn the system quickly.

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