Name: Charu Chandra
email: charu@ccs.neu.edu
Negatives:
1) The search results might not be in the language of the user, they could be too technical for the users to understand.
Usability heuristic - Speak the user's language
Severity - major
2) Search button doesn't look like a pushable button
Usability heuristic - Consistency
Severity - major
3) It is not explicit that the results are clickable until you hover over it
Usability heuristic - Feedback
Severity - minor
4) There is no exit from the search page. It simply opens the page in browser and there is no clear way to go back to the search results. It relies on the user's previous knowledge of using the back button.
Usability heuristic - Clearly marked exits
Severity - minor
5) There is no help provided by the system. The system should at least say that the user has to type in the query in the text box with an example for users who have never used a search engine before.
Usability heuristic - Help and documentation
Severity - minor
6) There is unnecessary space wasted at the top
Usability heuristic - Simple and natural dialogue
Severity - cosmetic
7) Spelling of Assistant on the main page
Usability heuristic - Simple and natural dialogue
Severity - cosmetic
8) It should tell the source of the content
Usability heuristic - Feedback
Severity - minor
9) The articles should be well-demarcated to prevent any confusion
Usability heuristic - Feedback
Severity - cosmetic
10) A longer description can be given along with the article stubs
Usability heuristic - Feedback
Severity - minor
11) It gets the result for misspelled words but does not tell the user what did it really search for. For example, if you search for vitmin, ti searches for vitamin but it doesn't tell the user that it did search for vitamin which might not be something user was searching for
Usability heuristic - Feedback
Severity - minor
12) On using back button, the results remain on the screen but the user looses the keywords that he searched for
Usability heuristic - Feedback
Severity - major
13) There should be some space between text area and search button
Usability heuristic - Simple and natural dialogue
Severity - cosmetic
14) There is a visible gap between search box and suggestion list which might confuse the user
Usability heuristic - Feedback
Severity - minor
Positives:
15) The system looks simple with minimal widgets on screen
Usability heuristic - Simple and natural dialogue
Comment - good
16) The language in interface is simple to understand. The search is capable of taking spelling mistakes.
Usability heuristic - Speak the user's language
Comment - good
17) The system show the list of possible word when the user starts typing.
Usability heuristic - Minimize user memory load
Comment - good
18) It resembles the familiar search engines.
Usability heuristic - Consistency
Comment - good
19) Errors are prevented by showing possible words while typing the search query.
Usability heuristic - Prevent errors
Comment - good
20) The font is big and easy to read.
Usability heuristic - Simple and natural dialogue
Comment - good