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The guidelines for the university websites are collected through literature review. We checked the university websites mentioned in Table | against those guidelines. The total score of each university is Table 1. Top 10 universities - THE rankings (THE, 2018) In this study, we evaluated the usability of the websites of top 10 universities of Pakistan listed by Times Higher Education rankings (THE, 2018) through guideline scoring. The names of the universities are mentioned in (Table 1). For ease in referring the universities, we use the codes instead of names in the rest of the paper.

Table 1 The guidelines for the university websites are collected through literature review. We checked the university websites mentioned in Table | against those guidelines. The total score of each university is Table 1. Top 10 universities - THE rankings (THE, 2018) In this study, we evaluated the usability of the websites of top 10 universities of Pakistan listed by Times Higher Education rankings (THE, 2018) through guideline scoring. The names of the universities are mentioned in (Table 1). For ease in referring the universities, we use the codes instead of names in the rest of the paper.

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Fig. 1. BPMN diagram representing roadmap of this study The list of guidelines is designed and tested first using experts on two university websites. Suggestions provided by the experts after pilot test are incorporated. The final categories and related guidelines are presented in next section. The focus of this research is to propose a university websites design guidelines set. While not a single set of guidelines can be considered comprehensive, we adopted numerous set of guidelines, and designed a
Fig. 1. BPMN diagram representing roadmap of this study The list of guidelines is designed and tested first using experts on two university websites. Suggestions provided by the experts after pilot test are incorporated. The final categories and related guidelines are presented in next section. The focus of this research is to propose a university websites design guidelines set. While not a single set of guidelines can be considered comprehensive, we adopted numerous set of guidelines, and designed a
As this research is a part of an ongoing project, we implemented these common issues in identification of domain specific heuristics for usability evaluation for the universities of Pakistan. Table 6. The identified common usability issues in the website designs of the universities of Pakistan
As this research is a part of an ongoing project, we implemented these common issues in identification of domain specific heuristics for usability evaluation for the universities of Pakistan. Table 6. The identified common usability issues in the website designs of the universities of Pakistan
Table 4. The Scores of Website Design on Various Categories Through this study, we tried to identify the common usability issues of the university websites of Pakistan, and reported the issues with the lowest scores. Through the identification of these issues, this research will help in understanding the problems of currently developed designs. Through this study, we also identified the usability issues which scored the least in guidelines for all websites. The ten issues with the overall lowest median score up to the average median score are mentioned in (Table 6). For university websites of Pakistan, these issues require attention of the designers and university authorities.
Table 4. The Scores of Website Design on Various Categories Through this study, we tried to identify the common usability issues of the university websites of Pakistan, and reported the issues with the lowest scores. Through the identification of these issues, this research will help in understanding the problems of currently developed designs. Through this study, we also identified the usability issues which scored the least in guidelines for all websites. The ten issues with the overall lowest median score up to the average median score are mentioned in (Table 6). For university websites of Pakistan, these issues require attention of the designers and university authorities.
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