Heuristic Evaluation
A Heuristic Evaluation is an inspection of a system, application or website against an agreed set of design and usability guidelines to highlight usability and design quality issues. Guidelines used within the inspection may include internal brand guidelines and style guides and external guidelines such as usability guidelines, visual design guidelines and operating system guidelines.
A task-based Heuristic Evaluation focuses the inspection to cover the parts of the interface that enable users to complete key user tasks. This type of inspection can highlight and prioritise issues where task completion may be compromised by poor usability or design.