Heuristics
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In the design world, "heursitics" means "principles". Heuristics are used in design as checklists against which designs are measured. You can read all about how design heuristics are used on Jacob Nielsen's site.
No, seriously, go read it. Using heuristic evaluation to determine how to improve our user interfaces is a good idea for lots of reasons:
- It's cheap
