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The last phase in the designing and developing an online social network platform is the evaluation cycle. It is essential to evaluate the design of the system from the initial stages in order to ensure its compliance with the requirements of the targeted users. For that purpose users’ participation and continuous evaluation in every stage of the design process is of paramount importance. Hence, in the design and implementation of the system, several evaluation iterations either with users’ or experts’ participation should be conducted employing different evaluation methods depending on the stage of the development life-cycle. The principal objective of the evaluation iterations is to determine, at every stage, the degree of usability of the system.
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Karampelas, P. (2013). Usability Evaluation Methodology. In: Techniques and Tools for Designing an Online Social Network Platform. Lecture Notes in Social Networks, vol 3. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-0787-4_8
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