best questionnaires for user interface usability evaluation

[Cockerill, Alan]

I'm a fan of Steve Krug's approach
http://www.sensible.com/

and his two books

Don't Make Me Think
&
Rocket Surgery Made Easy

He doesn't have a default set of questions but builds them after site owners 'distill' exactly what it is they think are the most important things a user should be able to do. From these he sets ups some scenarios to see how easily users can do them.  The sessions are recorded and/or narrowcasted live to business owners so they can see what it's actually like using the site through a user's eyes.  His methodology removes the blinkers of the experts who work constantly with the site - and removes personal biases and neverending arguments in the design team because the users'  voice (through their actual experience) is the deciding vote.

The process is iterative, so you can keep refining certain key user experiences, or work your way down the list of priorities.


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From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Maryam Safari
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Dear all,
What are best questionnaires for user interface usability evaluation?
I presenting a model for information retrieval. So I should evaluate users satisfaction for this model. I need help identifying the top & best questionnaires to evaluate user satisfaction of the user interface (usability, ...).
Thanks
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Maryam Safari
MS in Medical Librarianship and Information Sciences
School of Health Management and Medical Informatics Sciences
Tabriz University of  Medical Sciences
Tabriz , Iran
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