Tips+for+creating+heuristics

Here are some tips that last year's EDGE904 come up with about structuring a heuristic.'

If you have a tip - please add it here!

While I [past student] am writing my heuristic I am thinking that I am trying to sell the idea to a friend, but also telling them what does not work as well as what does work.
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Here is a definition of heuristic from www.thefreedictionary.com
 * Tip 2:**

heuristic - a commonsense rule (or set of rules) intended to increase the probability of solving some problem So we are looking for a rule (of thumb) that is commonsense and gleaned from some examples of developing online learning

As per the chat, here's the link to Neilsen's heuristics about usability. They're not a bad starting point to get an idea of what a heuristic looks like: Neilsen's Usability heuristics
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