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UX audits
Field notes from the UX audits we run on live products: the 15-point checklist, what it finds most often, and how to turn a page of findings into the next quarter of design work.
Heuristic review or usability testing: which one you need
They answer different questions and fail in different directions. What each one is blind to, and the order that wastes the least money.
The usability problems we find in almost every dashboard
Nobody designs a dashboard badly on day one. It gets one more chart per quarter and one more sidebar link per request. Here is where that ends up.
How to read a UX audit report without getting defensive
The report is a list of decisions you made, described by people who did not have to make them. How to get value out of it on the day it arrives.
What a UX audit costs, and what moves the price
Three different jobs get sold under one name. Here is what each tier includes, and the handful of things that genuinely change the number.
What a UX audit actually is, and what it is not
A structured review of a live product against a fixed checklist, ranked by impact. What that includes, what it leaves out, and who should get one.
The 30 days after a UX audit: how to ship the fixes
The report lands. Everyone reads it. Somebody says “this is really useful”. Then the sprint starts, a customer escalation arrives, and the document goes into a folder where…
The UX audit checklist: 15 points that decide sign-ups and second visits
The 15-point checklist we use to audit a live product, in the order a new user meets it: landing, sign-up, the first session, mobile, and coming back.