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Locate an on-line library catalog, either at a university or at your local public library. Use Nielsen and Molich's heuristics to evaluate the interface.

PART I
Get some feedback from at least 3 students and combine your analyses into a single list of problems with the interface. Assign priorities to the problems, so the designers of the system would be able to decide which things were most important to change.
PART II
Complete a cognitive walkthrough of the same interface, using what you believe to be a representative task. In a half of a page, compare the kinds of things discovered by heuristic analysis to the kinds of things discovered by the walkthrough.

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The process involves assessing an online library catalog using Nielsen and Molich's ten usability heuristics, including visibility of system status, match between system and the real world, and user control and freedom. User feedback is also collected and combined to determine the most critical issues to fix. A cognitive walkthrough is then performed to understand users' thought processes in accomplishing a specific task.

Step-by-step explanation:

Given your question, you are asking to evaluate an online library catalog using Nielsen and Molich's heuristics. To do this, we would follow this process:

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