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Usability

nounverified·updated May 18, 2026

extent to which a system product or service can be used by specified users to achieve specified goals with effectiveness, efficiency and satisfaction in a specified context of use (note 1: The “specified” users, goals and context of use refer to the particular combination of users, goals and context of use for which usability is being considered; note 2: used as a qualifier to refer to the design knowledge, competencies, activities and design attributes that contribute to usability, such as usability expertise, usability professional, usability engineering, usability method, usability evaluation, usability heuristic). [See also: ISO/IEC 9241-11 Ergonomic of Human-System Interaction — Part 11: Usability: Definitions and Concepts. ISO, Geneva, Switzerland, 2018, https://www.iso.org/standard/63500.html.]

Classifications

Entity Type

Capability100%manual revieweval-seeds-v0.3-2026-05-14
Ddorianlast reviewed

Sensitivity

85%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
?unassignedlast reviewed

Information Class

90%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Variants

synonym
serviceability
plural
Usabilities
possessive
Usability's
pluralpossessive
Usabilities'