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. 2020 May 4;20:84. doi: 10.1186/s12911-020-1083-6

Table 2.

The number of the identified problems per method and usability group

Heuristics evaluation
N (%)
Think aloud
N (%)
Think aloud + Heuristics evaluation
N (%)
Both Think aloud and Heuristics evaluation
N (%)
Only Think aloud
N (%)
Only Heuristics evaluation
N (%)
Satisfaction 120 (44.6) 113 (43.46) 190 (45) 43 (40.5) 70 (45.45) 77 (47.23)
Effectiveness 23 (8.5) 26 (10) 34 (8) 15 (14.15) 11 (7.14) 8 (4.9)
Efficiency 20 (7.5) 45 (17.3) 53 (12.5) 12 (11.35) 33 (21.43) 8 (4.9)
Learnability 38 (14.12) 26 (10) 53 (12.5) 11 (10.4) 15 (9.75) 27 (16.57)
Error 68 (25.28) 50 (19.24) 93 (22) 25 (23.6) 25 (16.23) 43 (26.4)
No. of usability problems 269 260 423 106 154 163
Percentage of the problems identified by the two methods to the total number of problems 25% 36% 39%