Karm

The Karm which is the focus of this evaluation was written by Sirtaj Singh Kang. Karm tracks time spent on various tasks it is useful for tracking hours to be billed to different clients or just to find out that what percentage of time you spent on performing different tasks in a day.

In the following report we will identify usability problems and disciplines that exist in Karm and as well as suggest improvements. Karm is a software with a very limited functionality .

The method I used for evaluating was that going through each heuristic and reporting that how well karm stands . This report is divided into 10 parts where each part deals with each of the 10 Neilsens heuristics in context with karm in details.

The main findings of this report have been that Karm

As far as the “Simple and Natural dialogues” are concerned, karm has a very simple interface with very few dialogues on it and there is nothing complex in the interface In the case of Navigation I did found some difficulty in locating the label “this session” which is located at bottom right corner of the karm main window. Presentation is si

Being consistent is a huge factor in the interface usability evaluation. Karm ahs been reasonably consistent in the graphic design for instance the position of OK and CANCEL buttons is pretty much same in all the windows which indeed allows predictability. Also it has been quite consistent with the colors of the different buttons as in the color of stop and delete etc bttons.

But unfortunately there is no such option as History in this software.

Some topics in this essay:
Session Total, Task Edit, Help Documentation, Kang Karm, Karm Report, Stop Delete, OK CANCEL, Activating Delete, Marked Exits, KArm Interface, error messages, stop delete etc, system user, stop delete, user aware, marked exits, limited functionality, delete etc, concerned karm, makes user aware, help documentation, clock icon,