UX Audit
A structured expert review of a product's user experience that identifies usability problems and prioritizes fixes by impact.
A UX audit is a systematic diagnosis of an existing product: specialists review it against usability principles (heuristic evaluation), analytics, and often usability testing, then catalog the problems and rank them by user impact and effort to fix.
The deliverable is a prioritized action list, not a redesign — it tells a team exactly where the experience leaks and what to fix first. Audits are the low-risk entry point before committing to a full redesign, and a reliable way to surface accumulated design debt.
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Heuristic EvaluationAn expert review of an interface against established usability principles (heuristics) to find problems without recruiting users.Usability TestingWatching real users attempt real tasks in a product or prototype to find where they struggle, hesitate, or fail.Design DebtThe accumulated cost of inconsistent, outdated, or shortcut design decisions that make a product harder to use and slower to evolve.