|
|
Reviews of
Websites, Software, and an Occasional This-Or-That
This is a list of just our website reviews.
Our Criteria Checklist
We evaluate sites using this checklist
of 33 items but don't stop there. When your site involves
principles that challenge our checklist's thoroughness or
logic, we'll work on those issues too, and consider adding
them to the list. If your site isn't conducive to the checklist,
as occurs on more functional applications, we'll start from
a clean slate, as has occurred on a few reviews. Our experience,
in fact, is centered around web applications moreso than
marketing sites. |
|
|
Reviews |
2009-Jan-24 |
|
Review of Grassroots.org |
2009-Jan-19 |
|
Review of StickyStreet.com, a loyalty program vendor. |
2008-Jun-13 |
|
Review of temperaturealert.com, a vendor of a hardware temperature
device for server rooms |
2008-Jan-26 |
|
Statistics Canada, review of governmental info agency |
2007-Dec-25 |
|
Rightsleeve.com,
an online purveyor of advertising promo materials. |
2007-Sep-2 |
|
USA.gov, the ultimate "municipal" site? |
2007-Apr-14 |
|
Qabiria, a new translation services site |
2007-Feb-10 |
|
Like.com, a visual search site for retail shopping |
2007-Jan-31 |
|
James
City County Website, review of a public county's site |
2006-Sep-10 |
|
MakeTime, review of an Ajax-based, SalesForce.com Addin Search
Panel |
2006-Sep-02 |
|
4.0 Tutoring.com
Streamlined review of academic site. |
2006-Jul-9 |
|
Review of Hitech Solutions |
2006-May-29 |
|
Review of FreshBooks.com
Learn how one great web app turns learners into users in no time flat, with 28 specific learnability techniques... |
2006-Mar-20 |
|
Review of CoreObjects.com,
an offshore software developer |
2006-Feb-4 |
|
Review of a GenericDB
Database Web App |
2005-Nov-11 |
|
Review of theVine.co.nz a
bible site... was it Jakob Neilsen that said "Simplicity
is next to Godliness?" |
2005-Apr-12 |
|
Review of Amitdeshpande.com ...
Is Flashy Friendly? A very
modern, personal site of and by a web expert. |
2004-Sep-27 |
|
Genesism.com Review
of an industrial design site from Pune. You know where that
is, right? |
2003-Jun-20 |
|
Steve Krug's Book, "Don't
Make Me Think"
A book report?! What's that doing here? Let's call it the 7
habits of highly successful websites. |
2003-Jun-16 |
|
V-Span
Distance technology site with some content basics and some online
functionality. |
2003-May-12 |
|
A SHOOTOUT! CSU's CompSci vs. Computer
Information Science
Who has the better website the algorithm-ers or the MBA's
who call them for support? And the winner is... |
2003-Apr-24 |
|
Cambrian College
Nice college website! |
2003-Apr-10 |
|
HR Technology Group
A human resources consulting site. Good example of general purpose,
Yellow Pages style concerns. |
|
|
|
Other Heuristic Checklists
Take a look at some of these other checklists
for web design:
Duke
University 1996 Checklist by Dr. Nancy Everhart, 2 pages
approximately 40 items. Simple, content-centric, a little dated
but good emphasis on authentic value. Inspired us to start on
another checklist design, a tree-style one that starts with
the broadest trunk of "Visitors Get What They Came For."
Xerox
Corporation, Deniese Pierotti's Heuristic Evaluation - A System
Checklist, a 20-page usability checklist. Lots of valuable
information but probably sags under its own weight, as is typical
of big-company stuff, in that it tries to exhaust every UI notion
and in so doing becomes a treatise not a tool.
|