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uSer Interface evaluatIon
e last remaining part in the cycle of UI interactive software devel-
opment is the evaluation stage. Even if the developers may have
strived to adhere to various HCI principles, guidelines, and rules
and have applied the latest toolkits and implementation methodolo-
gies, the resulting UI or software is most probably not problem-free.
Frequently, careful considerations in interaction and interface design
may not even have been carried out in the first place. Aside from the
fact that there may be things that the developer failed to oversee or
consider, the overall development process was to be a gradual refine-
ment process to begin with, where the next refinement stages would
be based on the evaluation results of t ...