Monday, January 20, 2014

As Is Analysis - www.studentsreview.com

Visibility of system status
Besides the copyright date range of 2000-2014, I have no idea when comments were posted and how recently this site has been used/updated.


Match between system and the real world
The language is appropriate and most of the information presented is also appropriate. The placement of all the information seems completely random and disorderly.
User control and freedom
The site is pretty easy to navigate once your mind can filter out all the advertisements on the page and the really strange-looking interface. You can pretty much see all the links to click on one page and most of the information is displayed on one page.
Once you submit a review there nothing to click to go back to the site.
Consistency and standards
Every is what it says it is and everything that I expected to come up after clicking a link showed up
Error prevention
There should probably be a “confirm submission” page or pop-up before the review is actually submitted, or there should be required fields to prevent incomplete reviews to compromise the integrity of the review (I ended up submitting a really bad review because I didn’t finish it and tried submitting it).
Recognition rather than recall
All the links are pretty clear, but the site is so ugly and crammed with text and information that it might become hard for someone with a short attention span to find the same page they were looking for.
Flexibility and efficiency of use
The site responds very quickly
Aesthetic and minimalist design
Terrible!
Help users recognize, diagnose, and recover from errors
Did not know how to trigger error message/did not run into an error message
Help and documentation
There is an FAQ section but I did not find any other sources of help or documentation

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