Oliver Newth

HEART

A user-centered metrics framework developed by Google for measuring user experience

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HEART is a user-centered metrics framework developed by Google.

Components

  • Happiness: User satisfaction and attitude
  • Engagement: Level of user involvement
  • Adoption: New user acquisition
  • Retention: Existing user retention
  • Task Success: User efficiency and effectiveness
Three rows show Happiness, Retention and Task Success translated into goals, observable signals and candidate metrics. Confidence uses survey responses, retention uses an eligible cohort and task success uses eligible attempts. No results are plotted.
Conceptual measurement worksheet with proposed metrics for three HEART categories. These are examples to operationalize, not benchmark values or findings from the paper. Original diagram based on Kerry Rodden, Hilary Hutchinson and Xin Fu, Measuring the User Experience on a Large Scale: User-Centered Metrics for Web Applications.

Usage

Used for measuring and improving user experience metrics. Provides a comprehensive framework for tracking product success from the user's perspective.

Examples and Applications

  • Feature Success: Measure impact across all five dimensions
  • UX Improvement: Track satisfaction and task success rates
  • Product Strategy: Balance growth (adoption) with quality (happiness)
  • See also: GAME, AARM, CIRCLES

Linked from

  • AARM

    See also: HEART, Hook Model, JTBD

  • CIRCLES

    See also: HEART, Kano, JTBD

  • Frameworks

    HEART - User experience metrics

  • Frameworks

    HEART - User experience metrics

  • GAME

    See also: HEART, ICE, AARM

  • Hook Model

    See also: Atomic Habits, HEART, AARM

  • JTBD

    See also: CIRCLES, Kano, HEART