diff --git a/guide/english/user-experience-research/heuristic-review/index.md b/guide/english/user-experience-research/heuristic-review/index.md index ae28b888ac..1e40a63731 100644 --- a/guide/english/user-experience-research/heuristic-review/index.md +++ b/guide/english/user-experience-research/heuristic-review/index.md @@ -3,11 +3,13 @@ title: Heuristic Review --- ## Heuristic Review -This is a stub. Help our community expand it. +A Heuristic Review is the process of evaluating the usability of the interface a site or piece of software by determining the extent to which it adheres to recognised 'best practices'. -This quick style guide will help ensure your pull request gets accepted. - +This could, for example, involve examining the discoverability of elements of a website, so as to determine whether a user will be able to navigate it intuitively. It may also determine the extent to which a user is made aware of the current state of the site. + + +While there are, of course, various criteria by which usability might be measured, the ten heuristics outlined in Jakob Nielsen are frequently used as a point of reference in this regard. #### More Information: