Task

You are to create a blog on the subject Interact site that addresses the following two (2) related areas:

Firstly, research and determine a set of usability principles that you can use to evaluate an interface;

Secondly, you are to find an online hotel reservation site. Without proceeding fully through to payment, but going as far as you can before that, attempt to book a room by giving a check-in date and a check-out date. Use the usability principles you chose for the first part of this assignment, to evaluate the customer experience of booking a room on this site.

Rationale

This assignment covers the following learning outcomes for this subject:

Be able to list and explain the importance of the Principles of Design in HCI;

Be able to explain the importance of Usability in interface design;

Be able to list and apply the major Usability guidelines to an interface design

Be able to create a design for an interface using the Principles of Design;