Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | books | about  Take Breaks! A Simple Way to Improve Your Heuristic Evaluation Results (11 Jun 2005) The moral of this story? You may find yourself more effective in performing heuristic or expert evaluations if you divide them into sections and take breaks between to refresh your thinking. The approach used in the studies was to divide the heuristics themselves into sets. Using those smaller sets of criteria per session, work for an hour, then get away for 30 minutes or more, whether on a complete break or simply to another type of task. You may find that each time you begin it is with the freshness of mind of a whole new evaluation. Article URL: http://www.upassoc.org/upa_publications/upa_voice/volumes/2005/june/take_breaks.html Read 54 more articles from Usability Professionals Association sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: Tweaks for Geeks     This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy