Run a Nielsen heuristic evaluation of your website
Audit a page or flow against Nielsen’s 10 usability heuristics — each finding tied to a heuristic, a severity rating and a concrete fix.
Heuristic evaluation is the fastest way to find usability problems without recruiting users: an evaluator walks the interface against a known set of principles and flags where it violates them. The hard part is being systematic and naming the right heuristic.
This tool does that pass for you. Describe the screen or flow and it returns findings mapped to Nielsen’s ten heuristics — visibility of system status, match to the real world, error prevention, and so on — each with a severity rating and a suggested fix. Use it as a first sweep before you spend money on user testing.
The tool for this
🔍Usability Audit
Heuristic audit against Nielsen's 10 — each finding with a heuristic, severity and fix.
Frequently asked questions
What are Nielsen’s 10 heuristics? +
A set of broad usability principles like visibility of system status, user control, consistency, error prevention and help. The tool checks your interface against each one.
Does this replace user testing? +
No — it complements it. Heuristic evaluation catches obvious problems cheaply so user testing time goes to subtler, behavioral issues.
How are findings prioritized? +
Each finding gets a severity rating so you fix the show-stoppers before cosmetic issues.
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