Recently I tweeted about my new student well-being heuristics with a simple example of them at work, and I thought I would share them here:

Student well-being tip: Are you planning for an open book style final exam? Consider adding a Topics page to your course site to help support students locating useful related course content quickly, easily, and with less stress!

Here are some #SFU CMPT-363 examples👇 pic.twitter.com/AYFBTf3uEm

— Hibbitts Design (@hibbittsdesign) December 3, 2020

A simple Topics page is a practical example based on my “student well-being” heuristic design principles (in addition to Jakob Nielsen's classic 10 heuristic principles):

✅Reduce student anxiety and stress
✅Support student time management
✅Provide anonymous feedback channel

— Hibbitts Design (@hibbittsdesign) December 3, 2020

Thanks to the ever helpful feedback of @davidnwright, here is my next iteration:

⓵ Reduce student anxiety and stress
⓶ Support student time management
⓷ Frictionless direct student–instructor communication

Quite telling that 'student' is within each design principle🙂

— Hibbitts Design (@hibbittsdesign) December 3, 2020