Heuristic Web site evaluation: Exploring the effects of guidelines on experts' detection of usability problems

Technical Communication

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 392-404

  Donker Kuijer, Marieke Welle ^a   De Jong, Menno ^a   Lentz, Leo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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