Pandora Analysis

Visibility of system status
The pandora site is very visibility appealing and very clear where everything is use it makes it easy to use.

Match between system and the real world

Pandora has everything set up that it could be useful for a first time user. Such as a search bar to find your favorite artist, genre, or song. Based on what you search the site plays music related to what you put into the search bar. I believe everything on site everyone has seen everything or has heard of everything that is on the pandora site.

User control and freedom

The pandora player is very easy to use with the play and the next buttons to pause the song that you are listening to, or to skip the song and listen to another song. Also on the site you can give songs ratings with a thumbs up or thumbs down.

Consistency and standards

Very easy

Error prevention

I did not run into any problems while on the site, but you do need to have an account to listen to certain music for a long period of time. To prevent error messages is to make sure that there is no way to find an error on the site, which there was none.

Recognition rather than recall

When on the first page you recognize everything and most things do not change at all so it is very east to remember and to use.

Flexibility and efficiency of use

You can sign up for pandora and it would remember what you search and make those searches into your "stations". If you upgrade your account to actually paying money you can skip songs with no ads, but if you do not you have commercial ads breaking up songs and what not, just like you are listening to the radio in your car.

Aesthetic and minimalist design

All of the dialogues and information were important to what I was doing and there was not much excess that I felt overwhelmed or annoyed by. The relative visibility was perfect for me, and would be very easy to use for a first time user, to understand everything as needed. The design is very simple and basic, so it has a minimalist design.

Help users recognize, diagnose, and recover from errors

I did not receive any error messages from the website. It all functioned properly. The system made it easy for me to recognize what would cause errors and my abilities on the site. I imagine, based off the dependability of the site, they would have an easily understood error message.

Help and documentation

The help tab would be very useful for someone that had no idea go how to use the site. It described everything out step by step on how to use the site properly.

When first getting on the site it is very appealing to the eye and you can see everything clearly and you can see how easy everything is going to be used. Overall I think the site would be very easy to use for first time users and it is very user friendly.