Beyond “Usability and user experience”, towards an integrative heuristic inspection: From accessibility to persuasiveness in the UX evaluation a case study on an insurance prospecting tablet application

Abstract

Heuristic inspections are often carried out in a rather restrictive manner in the sense that they often address one or two of User Experience aspects. These two generally being: usability and “user experience”. This fails to consider UX as it should be [considered]: through a holistic approach. Thus, we suggest to go beyond that by opting for what we have called an Integrative Heuristic Inspection that takes into account issues of: accessibility, usability, emotions & motivation and persuasion, and that aims to simplify the overflow of recommendations UX professionals are faced with nowadays. We illustrate our proposal by a case study carried out on an insurance prospecting tablet application. We analyzed the results of the inspection separately for each dimension as well as combined across dimensions. Implications for a reflection on the structuring of the criteria for a general criteria-based approach in UX are discussed.