This is a short presentation to help attendees of the UIE Virtual Seminar, Testing Your Critiquing Skills, prepare their critiques. For more information, see http://uie.com/events/virtual_seminars/critiques

1. Testing Your
Critiquing Skills
The “Get Ready!” Preview
Jared M. Spool
User Interface Engineering

2. Testing Your Critiquing
Skills: Site Navigation
UIE Virtual Seminar
September 24, 2008
Details at http://uie.com/events
We’ll discuss the techniques for critiquing
You’ll critique the same sites and we’ll compare
notes

3. Sites We
Selected for
the Critique:
Site Navigation
www.NASA.gov
www. MSH.org
www. HAPonline.org
www. HSN.com

4. NASA
www.nasa.gov

5. Critique Assignment:
www.NASA.gov
Their audience focuses on ‘news of the day’ and
multimedia
They are hoping to reach more 18 - 24 year olds
“We want to make ourselves relevant to young
people.”
Critique areas:
10 icons for major functions
Multimedia functionality