ux-heuristics-audit

Walk through each of Nielsen's 10 heuristics and flag only issues that plausibly cost users time, confidence, or task completion. For every finding, record the violated heuristic, a severity rating, what's wrong, and a concrete fix, then end with the top 3 priorities.

They cover visibility of system status, match with the real world, user control and freedom, consistency, error prevention, recognition over recall, flexibility and efficiency, minimalist design, error recovery, and help documentation. Each heuristic has specific flag criteria for common violations.

Severity combines three factors: frequency (how often users hit the issue), impact (how hard it is to overcome), and persistence (one-time or recurring). These collapse into four levels: Critical, Major, Minor, and Cosmetic.

No. When an issue is both a usability and accessibility violation, the audit notes the overlap but defers accessibility specifics like contrast, keyboard, and screen-reader checks to a dedicated accessibility audit skill.

Skip findings that don't plausibly cost a real user time, confidence, or task completion. Avoid padding reports with cosmetic nitpicks, and don't recommend more help content while also flagging clutter — resolve that tension toward the primary task.