Heuristics Breakdown & Analysis
Jio cinema
1. Visibility of system status.
The same hover over effect is also available on Jio cinema but far less significant as compared to its counterpart. The name of the tile on which the cursor is does show up beside the cursor but is inconsistent throughout the website as it doesnt pop up on the tiles of sports tab. The selected tabs is indicated by a outline bounding box around it name. The edit profile and watchlist pages consist of the respective heading indicating the system status.
2. Match between system and real world
As depicted in the pictures above only jargons has been used in jio cinema. The displayed content is easily understandable across the whole website and does a good job in representing the real world.
3. User control and freedom
The website does offer all the basic features associated to user freedom and control , by placing the back to plan buttons on the subscription page and the ‘x’ button on the search bar. It misses out on the feature of parental control and kids section provided by its counterpart.
4. Consistency and standards.
As shown in all the picture above website of Jio cinema do good job in maintain ing the consistency in terms of its grid layout and the overall functioning of the website. Jio cinema follows the platform and industry standards to give the user the best possible experience.
5. Error prevention.
Jio cinema website appropriately provide prompts like popup screens before finalising a critical task to prevent the error. eg. logout pop up.
6. Recognition rather than recall.
The website always has the menu visible on almost all the tabs and appropriate icons on the remaining tabs to help the user navigate through the website easily, following the principles of recognition.
7. Flexibility and efficiency of use.
Jio cinema has included shortcut features essential and standard the industry for the content viewing experience such as use of arrows key shortcuts to jump time forward and backwards on a videos. Use of up and down arrow keys to increase and decrease volume and Esc button to exit the fullscreen mode. This ensures flexibility and efficiency is provided to the user in terms of content viewing.
8. Aesthetic and minimalist design.
Jio cinema use minimalistic design approach. however the lack of icons is to improve the aesthetics even further is notable. all the content and features on the website do support the primary goal of the website that is to view content.
9.Help users recognise, diagnose, and recover from errors.
They do a good job in providing error messages with popping red colours to grab the attention of the user to rectify the mistake made.In Jio cinema it is evidently shown on the subscription page while entering card details.
10.Help and documentation.
As shown in the images below the websites provide the feature of help and support. It is easily accessible on the website and has various methods of assistance provided to the user which is help full. Jio cinema provide with FAQ’s and chat support.
