This document has everything you’ll need to run a Heuristic Analysis, including a form for scoring, a Notion Database for documenting the scores, and an example deck for presenting results to stakeholders. The video below will walk you through the process. Enjoy!

So why do a Heuristic Evaluation?

Here’s what Usability.gov has to say:

In a heuristic evaluation, usability experts review your site’s interface and compare it against accepted usability principles. The analysis results in a list of potential usability issues.

Benefits of doing the evaluation

• It can provide some quick and relatively inexpensive feedback to designers.
• You can obtain feedback early in the design process.
• Assigning the correct heuristic can help suggest the best corrective measures to designers.
• You can use it together with other usability testing methodologies.
• You can conduct usability testing to further examine potential issues.

<aside> 💡 In my personal experience, doing a heuristic evaluation is a great way to help stakeholders understand the severity of usability issues in a system and can help convince them that a particular constraint they may want to use in the system does not meet the fairly basic industry-accepted heuristics used to evaluate the software.

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Example outcomes:

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When to do a Heuristic Evaluation?

• When there is an existing product or prototype available to analyze.