| name | ux-audit |
| description | Evaluate an end-to-end experience against user goals, comprehension, efficiency, accessibility, trust, and distinctiveness, then prioritize evidence-based improvements. Use when an existing product flow needs critique. |
| license | MIT |
| metadata | {"category":"interface-and-experience","origin":"custom-synthesis","revision":"1.1.0"} |
Ux Audit
Trigger
- Conversion, completion, support, or satisfaction is poor.
- A redesign requires a baseline diagnosis.
Inputs
- Product/flow access
- User goals and audience
- Analytics/research/support evidence
- Technical and policy constraints
Procedure
- Define critical journeys and success measures.
- Walk the experience with realistic content, permissions, errors, latency, and narrow screens.
- Assess orientation, information scent, hierarchy, control clarity, feedback, recovery, trust, and cognitive load.
- Compare observed behavior with analytics, support themes, and research where available.
- Separate usability defects from preference and visual sameness.
- Run accessibility and all mandatory deslop audits.
- Rank findings by user impact, frequency, confidence, and effort/reversibility.
- Recommend experiments or changes with measurable outcomes.
Output contract
- Ranked UX findings
- Journey evidence
- Prioritized remediation/experiment plan
- Accessibility and deslop gate reports
Quality gates
- Findings connect to a user goal and evidence.
- No fake certainty where user research is absent.
- Critical recovery paths are included.
- All mandatory deslop gates pass before final redesign approval.
Handoffs and dependencies
deslop/ui-deslop (mandatory)deslop/design-pattern-detector (mandatory)deslop/artifact-delint (mandatory)deslop/text-humanizer when interface copy is producedhallmark-upstream/repository/skills/hallmarkaccessibility-reviewresearch/research-planner when user evidence is missing
Mandatory deslop disposition
Fail delivery and return the failed gate report whenever deslop/ui-deslop, deslop/design-pattern-detector, or deslop/artifact-delint does not pass. Revise the work before it can be declared complete.
Boundaries
- Do not present taste as user evidence.
- Do not optimize conversion through deception or dark patterns.
- Do not approve a redesign that failed mandatory deslop or accessibility gates.
