HealthCoach4Me.com: Heuristics Presentation

Dave Maruszewski & Shirley Carvalhedo

What is important?

Want people to register Want people to use the Coaching Plan Want people to understand how to use

the site Informing and Education (Secondary?)

Navigation Concerns

Video skipping If you don’t watch these, you may lose the

big picture Don’t get to coaching plan and all of its

functions (fast enough) This is the site’s big strength

Bombarded by registration requests Unnecessary and overly-repeated links Layered tabs Timing out quickly

Redesign

Simplify Menu Bar Allow for both drop downs and left margin of links

Left Margins for physically impaired Drop Downs for people who don’t want to be slowed

down Creation of tabs for drop downs Renaming tabs for to emphasize what is most

important for stakeholders “Using This Site” will draw more people in than

“About This Site” Remove bottom links and use them in other parts of

the site so that they relate to the matter on the page

Old Home Page

Home Layout

New Site Old Site

Old Home Page New Home Page

Home Layout

1) Moved tabs to the subject matter

2) Register or log in on Home page

3) Contextual Animation

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Home Layout

4) Removed animations (within slide show)

5) Removed scrolling rollout bar

6) Removed bottom links

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Home Layout

7) Removed site map and flags

8) Removed register and take site tour on slide show

9) “Using this Site” may be more informative and alluring

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Old Standard Page Layout

Standard Page Layout

1) Uniform with Home page

2) Removed violet bar

3) Drop down lists that mirror left hand margin

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Standard Page Layout

4) Contextual animation requests

5) Search like Google™

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Registration Layout

Registration Layout

Registration Layout

Registration Layout

Not Covered - Next Step

PDF’s Subtabs – How do we assimilate them? Diary issues Graphs – somewhat confusing

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