| dc.description.abstract | Following the advance of information
technology, nowadays online news portal is very popular. By
accessing news portal, people easily read news from their
smartphone, smart tab and other mobile devices. In term of
human-computer interaction aspect, news portal should serve
an effective interaction between the website and readers. News
portal should be designed based on standard interface design
rules, which is commonly called Eight Golden Rules. The
objective of this research is to evaluate the interface of two
major Indonesian online news portals, VIVA NEWS and
DETIKCOM. Both news portals were evaluated using
heuristic method based on eight criteria; consistency, shortcut
availability informative feedback, design dialog, error
handling, easy reversal action, sense of user control and
reduce short-term memory load. The result shows the
evaluation of each news portal and the comparison between
both news portal. The evaluation result is then useful to
improve the usability and functionality of the portals. | en_US |
