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The growing popularity of the World utilize Internet services as means of maximizing their profit by promoting products and services. Electronic commerce, which is also known as e economic environment in which business activities, such as purchasing products and advertising goods, are performed by using electronic communications. Web interface design is an important ‘pull factor’ in ecan be determinants of the success or failure of commercial websites, and electronic catalogues represent a fundamental factor in this respect. Electronic catalogues or e catalogues are mainly used to provide users with information about products and Consequently, it is one of the core support information systems of e The aim of this study is to investigate the usability of e commerce websites, which are Buy.com and Qvc.com. Moreover, to investigate the efficiency of the two usability evaluation methods which are modified heuristics evaluation and user testing in discovering usability problems of the online catalogue designs ‘ catalogues’ for e-commerce websites. Also, to explore how expert evaluators’ users’ experience can be exploited to discover the good and bad practices that can increase or decrease users satisfaction. The study concluded that the usability of e users’ overall acceptance of shoppi organisation, consistency and matching the real world are the most important usability guidelines in any e-catalogue design. Also, product classification has proved to be the backbone of all online catalogues. The results indicate from poor compliance with Nielsen’s traditional usability heuristics is also more likely to fail in gaining adequate levels of user satisfaction. This proves that this set of heuristi be used as a powerful tool for improving interface quality in Web 2.0. The results also suggest that, in real misleading results. The heuristics evaluation method was more effective in finding a gr number of usability problems at a low cost and with fewer resources, although the usability testing method was better in finding the more serious ones. Journal of Technology Research -catalogues systems: modified Amen Ali Alrobai King Abdulaziz University, Roobaea Salim AlRoobaea Taif University, Ali H. Al-Badi of East Anglia, Norwich, UK Pam J. Mayhew -Wide-Web has motivated many companies to -commerce, can be defined as an commerce websites. Various elements associated with -commerce websites. -catalogues for two e