Cognitive walkthroughs are used to examine the Usability of a product. They are designed to see whether or not a new user can easily carry out tasks within a given system. It is a task-specific approach to usability (in contrast to heuristic evaluation which is a more holistic usability inspection). The idea is that if given a choice – most users prefer to do things to learn a product rather than to read a manual or follow a set of instructions.Author/Copyright holder: Paul Veugen. Copyright terms and licence: CC BY 2.0 The biggest benefit of a cognitive walkthrough (or walkthroughs) is that it is extremely cost-effective and fast to carry out when compared to many other forms of usability...