ux-review

Run a heuristic evaluation by walking through UI features as a real user to identify cognitive friction like confusion and dead-ends. This skill applies Nielsen-style checks for visibility, feedback, and recoverability, generating a structured report with severity ratings and actionable fixes.

Cognitive friction in UI testing refers to points where users hesitate, misclick, or abandon a task. You identify it by simulating a real user walking through target goals cold, mid-flow, and at completion, recording friction points to enable pre-ship improvements.

Yes, you can perform usability testing on both desktop and mobile views. The skill applies heuristic evaluation across pre-release UI changes for both formats, capturing screenshots and documenting identified issues with severity to guide fixes before shipping.

Yes, you need a running UI and a defined target user goal to start a UX review. The skill requires a live target UI URL and a concrete user goal to perform the guided walkthrough, identify friction, and generate structured UX recommendations.

The best way to generate a structured UX report is to simulate a real user traversing UI features, apply a heuristic checklist for visibility and feedback, and document issues with severity. This produces a concise report with screenshots and actionable fixes before shipping.

Yes, UI testing works with claude-in-chrome MCP tools to perform the review and generate a structured UX report. The skill uses these tools to walk UI features as a real user, identify cognitive friction, and document fixes with severity ratings.