{"slug":"ux-product-auditor","title":"ux-product-auditor","summary":"Audits a website, app, onboarding flow, or design for usability, conversion, and product problems, tying every finding to a business outcome and a severity. Use this to review an interface, diagnose low conversion or activation, find where users drop off, get structured product f","platform":"Claude","tags":[],"authorName":"LLM Mart","authorSlug":"llm-mart","score":0,"source":"github","price":null,"verified":false,"createdAt":"2026-08-30T09:47:46.544637Z","repo":{"url":"https://github.com/cbrock84/headcount","stars":1697,"forks":256,"license":"MIT","updatedAt":"2026-09-17T19:13:19Z"},"bodyHtml":"<hr>\n<h2>name: ux-product-auditor\ndescription: Audits a website, app, onboarding flow, or design for usability, conversion, and product problems, tying every finding to a business outcome and a severity. Use this to review an interface, diagnose low conversion or activation, find where users drop off, get structured product feedback, or decide which UX fixes to ship first. For raising visual quality rather than finding problems, use <code>interface-craft</code>.</h2>\n<h1>UX and product auditor</h1>\n<p>A finding that does not name a consequence is an opinion. Every item in an audit connects a specific\nfriction to a specific outcome.</p>\n<h2>Audit by walking the real path</h2>\n<p>Do the actual task, on the actual device, as a first-time user with no context — not a tour of the\nscreens. Most serious problems live in transitions between screens, which a screen-by-screen review\nnever sees.</p>\n<p>Then walk it again as a returning user, whose needs are opposite: speed over explanation, and\nrecovery from whatever state they left in.</p>\n<h2>Lenses</h2>\n<p>Run each separately; combined, you find only what you were already looking for.</p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Comprehension</strong> — can a stranger tell what this does and whether it is for them?</li>\n<li><strong>First value</strong> — how many steps to the first genuinely useful moment, and how many are avoidable?</li>\n<li><strong>Friction</strong> — every field, click, decision, and wait. Which are load-bearing and which are\nhabit?</li>\n<li><strong>Trust</strong> — does anything ask for more than it has earned at that point?</li>\n<li><strong>Recovery</strong> — what happens on error, empty, slow, offline, or wrong input?</li>\n<li><strong>Accessibility</strong> — contrast, keyboard reachability, target size, meaning carried by color alone.\nBelow this floor, some people cannot use the product at all.</li>\n</ul>\n<h2>Severity</h2>\n<p>Assign one to every finding, and be strict — an audit where everything is critical has ranked\nnothing:</p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Critical</strong> — blocks the primary task, loses data, or excludes a group of users entirely.</li>\n<li><strong>High</strong> — measurably costs conversion or activation for many users.</li>\n<li><strong>Medium</strong> — friction with a workaround, or affects a narrower path.</li>\n<li><strong>Low</strong> — polish, inconsistency, or a preference.</li>\n</ul>\n<h2>Finding format</h2>\n<p>Each finding carries: <strong>where</strong> (the exact screen and step), <strong>what</strong> the user experiences, <strong>why</strong>\nit costs something, <strong>the consequence</strong> in business terms, <strong>severity</strong>, and <strong>the fix</strong> with rough\neffort.</p>\n<p>\"The signup form asks for company size before the account exists; users who do not know it guess or\nabandon; this sits before the only conversion event on the page\" is a finding. \"Form is too long\" is\na note.</p>\n<h2>Diagnosing low conversion or activation</h2>\n<p>Instrument the funnel to find <em>where</em>, then observe sessions to find <em>why</em>. Analytics say the step;\nonly watching says the reason. Teams that skip the second half fix the wrong thing confidently.</p>\n<p>Common causes, in rough order of frequency: asked for too much too early, value not visible before\neffort is required, an empty state with no path out of it, and a required integration the user\ncannot authorize.</p>\n<h2>Scoring</h2>\n<p>Where a numeric score is useful — tracking over time, comparing surfaces, reporting to someone who\ndid not read the audit — score each lens from one to five against stated criteria, and publish the\ncriteria alongside the score. An unexplained score is unfalsifiable and will be argued with rather\nthan acted on.</p>\n<p>Use the same scale everywhere so scores are comparable between audits. Do not average the lenses\ninto one headline number: a product that is excellent everywhere and inaccessible scores well on the\naverage and is still unusable for some people.</p>\n<h2>Moving from findings to solutions</h2>\n<p>An audit that stops at problems transfers the hard part back. For each finding above medium\nseverity, propose a specific fix — the actual change, not a direction — with rough effort and what\nit would improve.</p>\n<p>Where several findings share a root cause, say so and propose the one change. Fifteen findings\ntraceable to a missing design system is one finding.</p>\n<p>Where the right fix is uncertain, propose the cheapest way to find out rather than guessing.</p>\n<h2>Prioritizing</h2>\n<p>Rank by users affected × severity ÷ effort. Then state the one thing to fix first, and be willing to\nsay that most of the list is not worth doing yet. 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