Nielsen's 10 Heuristics for Hardware Zone Forum Market Place

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1. Error prevention

1.1. "Post Ad" button would be greyedout and disabled if a category is not selected

1.2. If a user wants to select a category there is a drop list to list down the available categories.

2. Flexibility and efficiency of use

2.1. There's no other faster way to post an advertisement as the steps to create an ad or post an ad is simple and fast for all users

2.2. The items in the category is being sorted by alphabetical order

2.3. Does not allow the user to search for specific price range

3. Aesthetic and minimalist design

3.1. The Interface for the user to post an Advertisement is very simple and it only require 3 steps

3.2. When a user is searching for a product, there are many other commercial advertisements, this makes it harder for the user to search for their desired product

4. Help users recognize, diagnose, and recover from errors

4.1. If a user accidentally "Reports" an advertisement, the user would not be able to revert the action

4.2. If a category is selected and a title/description/price has no text or input. When the user clicks on "Post Ad", A highlighted red error text would appear to notify the user that there is no input

4.3. A required number of characters is needed to post a comment, If the user does not meet the requirement and clicks on the comment button there is no error message to indicate that the user did not fulfill the requirement

5. Help and documentation

5.1. If a user requires a tutorial about posting an advertisement or deleting an advertisement there would be no help guide available

6. Visibility of system status

6.1. Status of advertisement, whether the product is available or unavailable is being informed

6.2. Users are able to view how long their advertisement has been opened/posted and the amount of people interested in the post.

7. Match between system and the real world

7.1. A Letter Icon is relevant to the user as it is well known to most users as "Email" or "Send Letter".

7.2. Hardware Zone display the prices of the product in "Singapore Dollars" for example "S$100" which allows users to quickly identify the currency of the product

8. User control and freedom

8.1. Can easily move to other categories

8.2. Once a user post an advertisement they are unable to upload additional images to the original post

9. Consistency and standards

9.1. Main title content of every page are light green which allows the user to differentiate which part of the pages are sub contents

10. Recognition rather than recall

10.1. It is simple and user for users to remember the steps of posting an Advertisement as it only requires 3 steps