A TOOL FOR WORKING WITH USABILITY GUIDELINES FOR E-COMMERCE WEB SITES

The interest for the quality and usability of e-commerce web sites significantly increased in the last years, as a result of the proliferation of web applications. The large number of guidelines and the variety of existing collections requires appropriate instruments for collecting and consulting a guideline data base. In this paper we describe a tool for working with usability guidelines. This tool is implementing a hierarchical structure of guidelines that are satisfying both domain-specific criteria and ergonomic criteria