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Extending and Refining Usability Heuristics to Better Address User Centered Design Issues in the Development and Evaluation of Municipal Websites

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  • Costin PRIBEANU

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Usability of public administration websites is a key issue in the information society. Unfortunately, the web content is still difficult to use if not unusable in many websites. Developers seem to neglect basic principles of user centered design. Usability heuristics are valuable resources for both developers and evaluators during and after the development process. The purpose of this work is to extend and refine an existing set of heuristics in order to better address some user centered design issues. Previous studies revealed specific usability problems of municipal websites as well as some evaluation issues. Two heuristics were added that refer to user guidance and task support. The revised heuristics could better help evaluators to explain and developers to understand usability problems in municipal websites.

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  • Costin PRIBEANU, 2014. "Extending and Refining Usability Heuristics to Better Address User Centered Design Issues in the Development and Evaluation of Municipal Websites," Informatica Economica, Academy of Economic Studies - Bucharest, Romania, vol. 18(1), pages 83-91.
    • Handle: RePEc:aes:infoec:v:18:y:2014:i:1:p:83-91
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    1. Costin PRIBEANU, 2017. "A Revised Set of Usability Heuristics for the Evaluation of Interactive Systems," Informatica Economica, Academy of Economic Studies - Bucharest, Romania, vol. 21(3), pages 31-38.

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