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effectiveness

the degree to which an interface facilitates a user in accomplishing the task for which it was intended. This normally refers to the degree to which errors are avoided and tasks are successful, measure by “success rate” or “task completion rate”. Conversely, a measure of “error rate” is the number of errors made, and when used to guide design, those errors would often be categorized by cause.