Tuesday 30 June 2015

Lab 2 : Usability Evaluation on Ipod Nano

Strive for Consistency

For the strive for consistency, the ipod nano provide  the user with suitable color of display such as type of font, font color, background color and clear screen. This will help the user to easy to understand on how to use the ipod nano. It is very important to make the user to feel easy with the interface of the ipod nano. This is because the interface is the important thing in ipod nano.

Offer informative feedback

The ipod nano will give feed back or respond to the user by displaying a pop up message for the user to see it. When the ipod nano is transferring a data from pc or laptop it will show a picture of data transferring that will make the user know when it will finish the transfer process. Other thing is, when the ipod nano is on low battery it will show a battery indicator blinking in the screen of the ipod nano.

Reduce short-term memory load

To reduce the short –term memory the ipod nano provide not many icon for the user to memorize. This is because if the ipod nano have many icon to click, it will make the user take time to memorize the icon function and it will make them to take a long time to learn on how to use it. Other thing is if the ipod nano have less icon function it will make the usability of the ipod nano more easier to understand and easy to use.

Prevent Errors

If a user makes an error, the interface should detect the error and offer simple, constructive, and specific instructions for recovery. For example, if the user want to rename a song and if the name already exist in the storage it will pop out a message that will display the name have already exist in the storage. Another thing is, if the user want to transfer a song to the ipod nano and the ipod nano have full storage it will pop out a message that tell the user the storage is full.


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