The UX Checklist helps you assessing
existing products or designs to spot
usability issues and improve overall User
Experience. This checklist can help you
when running a UX Audit.
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spot usability issues
To make sure you did not forget anything.
☐ Personalized features: currency, language, country, taxes, delivery options are changed on user’s location or web browser preferences.
☐ Registering provides value to users: A button called ‘Free trial’ communicates a clear benefit, but ‘Register’ doesn’t.
☐ Transparent pricing: prices are clearly displayed, you can have an easy overview of the different features in different tarifs, there are no hidden costs.
☐ Sample content: there is a sample of the newsletter next to the newsletter sign up form.
☐ Website is credible: credible references, credentions, contact details, images of real people are displayed.
☐ Clear call for action: users know what to do next and why it benefits them. They understand the value proposition of the site.
☐ First impression: the homepage creates a positive first impression and supports conversion.
☐ Logged in user’s name is displayed on the site: Hello Jack, Welcome mr. Smith.
☐ Major changes to the site, product or service are announced on the homepage: for example changes in the delivery policy or website downtimes / maintenance on banking apps.
☐ Company location and contact information is easily accessible from the Homepage.
☐ There is a privacy policy, in case the site gathers information of users.
☐ Images are relevant and meaningful, no unrelated stock photo’s or models, there are high quality pictures of the product or service.
☐ Site URL works with or without www
☐ Alt attribtues are provided for non-text elements, such as images, maps, sounds and video.
☐ Color alone is not used to convey information.
☐ Content is readable without a style sheet.
☐ Flash is avoided.
☐ Links buttons and checkboxes are easily clickable, a user can select a checkbox by clicking the text, not just the checkbox.
☐ There is a site description in the window title, which is easily understandable as a bookmark.
☐ Important links aren’t placed in moving features, for example auto-rotating carousels.
☐ Alphabetical A-Z sorting is avoided, it is used only when there are no better alternatives such as grouping items into related groups.
☐ User know where they are on the site, by using breadcrumbs.
☐ Navigation is consistent on every page.
☐ Browser’s ‘back’ button is not disabled.
☐ Links are descriptive, hover effects are used on navigation links, and the titles clearly explains where the call to action leads to. No ‘click here’ links.
☐ Site’s URL is memorable.
☐ There is a search bare, in case of a large website.
☐ Search is available on every page, not just the homepage.
☐ Search box is wide enough, so that users can see what they’ve typed.
☐ Search is a form where users can type search words immediately, not a link.
☐ Important call to actions are displayed as buttons, not links.
☐ Links don’t open a new browser tab or window, unless it is a .pdf file.
☐ Links are easily recognizable. They look clickable. Text that is not clickable should not be underlined.
☐ Color, visited links color is different than unvisited.
☐ There are no broken links, do a check with a link checker.
☐ Uncluttered product and service information: Information is scannable, images can be enlarged or zoomed in on for more detailed viewing.
☐ Important content is displayed first.
☐ Site is responsive.
☐ Related information is grouped together clearly.
☐ there are minimum amount of pop-up windows.
☐ Consistency. Page layouts are consistent across the whole website.
☐ Pages aren’t cluttered, there is enough white space to support scanning.
☐ Issue tracking, usability and user experience issues are tracked in an issue tracker.
☐ User testing testing with target users is done at different stages of the project.
☐ Prioritizing, changes are prioritized based on their importance.
☐ Impact analysis of changes, changes might be expensive and time consuming. Therefore it’s important to analyze the impact.
☐ ROI of changes, website is evaluated before and after making changes.
☐ Simplicity, only the absolutely necessary questions are asked in forms.
☐ Long dropdown menus are avoided, instead users can input text.
☐ Inputting data is flexible, for example with phone numbers or birth dates.
☐ Fields are labeled with common terms: name, address.
☐ Autofill is enabled.
☐ Fields contain sample answers, which help users to input information.
☐ Where needed a tooltip is provided.
☐ Form submission is confirmed on a confirmation page.
☐ Error messages are shown next to the input field, not just on the top or button of the page.
☐ Contrast, there is adequate contrast between the text and background.
☐ Content is scannable, by using short paragraphs, descriptive headings, lists, fat keywords.
☐ Content is written with common language that users easily understand.
☐ Content is useful and up-to-date, providing answers to the most common questions asked by users. there are no long instructions or ‘welcome to our website’ text.
☐ Use of uppercase letters in prose text is avoided.
