Evaluation of ZDNet Website for Usability and Functionality

Running head: HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION
HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION
STUDENT NAME: WENQI CAI
STUDENT ID: 217383848

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Table of Contents
Introduction:....................................................................................................................................3
Possible users and their goals:.........................................................................................................3
Analysis of the usability..................................................................................................................5
Methodology....................................................................................................................................8
Functionality of the interface...........................................................................................................8
Reference.......................................................................................................................................12

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Introduction:
Webpages usability can be measured by considering some vital aspects such as design,
accessibility, affordance, visibility, layout and interface. This repot will be evaluate the ZDNet
website “https://www.zdnet.com/au/”including the analysis and functionality evolution. This
website generally provides news updates related to technology world. It has a pleasant interface
with suitable navigation bar, from where important and most viewed topics are characterized as
Security, Mobility, Storage, hardware so on. The interface is very professional and suitable
compare to other standard newsletters sites. The dipper evaluation of the website will be
analyzed through random user perspective as hallway testing. This website mainly provides
recent updates of technology related article for estimated eleven countries. It displays the specific
country ‘news from where user is accessing the page by default. It is quite accurate and efficient,
user also can access other countries technology related articles from the top section named
“Edition”. The search section is also well-maid as it predicts auto complete keywords and
displays related article in several category including “trending now” section. For several topic in
newsletters the offer several subscription option after log-in to their network for personalize the
user experience and provide specific news, user is interested to be familiar with. The home page
takes 1.69s to load properly.
Possible users and their goals:
This website is designed for the basically provide news update on technology related
article. The technologies evaluation is rapidly increasing every day. It is not possible to familiar
with this updates for every individuals. This website can be handy The most likely users are
technology and updated news seekers who are seeking for news of updated technology and
article on them to gain broad knowledge such as before or after releases of any particular

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product. This page is also also have membership option which can be utilized to get user
personalized news as suited them. The goals of the possible user is following-
 To get daily news update associate with technology.
 To gain knowledge of a particular product or technology.
 To read articles published by specific writers.
 Subscribe to specific newsletters.