UX Design Checklists
Aim to create a consistent project to follow and evolve as a design review checklist.
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Memorize human biases
Patterns and Rules
Numbers
Questions to decide if you need a number input:
- Is the number an identifier or a value?
- Is this a number for which incrementing or decrementing makes sense, or will it fundamentally change what the number represents?
Use a text input if increment/decrement does not make sense.
Design System
| Elements | Notes |
|---|---|
| Golden rules | |
| Key principles | |
| Clarity | |
| Familiarity | |
| User Control | |
| Hierarchy | |
| Negative space | |
| Flexibility | |
| Accessibility |
Questions
Common question to run through when appraising a design.
| Question | Reflections |
|---|---|
| Who needs to see this? | |
| What decision are they making? | |
| What do they need to know? | |
| What are we trying to say? | |
| What is the emotional hook? | |
| What is the initial impression? | |
| If you stopped reading here, what is the message? | |
| What does this mean? | |
| Is what it says and what it means the same thing? | |
| Do we want that? | |
| Do we need to say that here? | |
| How does this make you feel? | |
| How else can we say this? | |
| What is memorable about this? | |
| How does that change behaviour? | |
| What's the payoff? | |
| What does someone know now that they didn't know before? | |
| How does that work? | |
| Why is that worth a click? | |
| Is that worth scrolling? | |
| What's the simpler version of this? | |
| Are we assuming too much? | |
| Why that order? | |
| Why would this make them choose that? | |
| What does a more polished version of this look like? | |
| Why would someone leave at this point? | |
| Why are we saying this twice? | |
| Is it worth pulling attention away from that?? | |
| Does that make it clearer? | |
| How would someone know that? | |
| Would it matter if someone missed that?? | |
| What's the obvious next step? | |
| Does that make it easier or harder? | |
| What's missing? | |
| Would this be better as a sentence or a picture? | |
| What is the key action verb? | |
| Why is that there? | |
| What matters here? | |
| What problem is that solving? | |
| What would happen if we got rid of that? | |
| Why isn't that clear? | |
| Why is this better? | |
| How can we make this more obvious? | |
| What happens when this expands? | |
| If we got rid of this, does that still work? | |
| Is it obvious what happens next? | |
| What just happened? | |
| Where's the idea? | |
| How does this change someone's mind? | |
| Are nested dropdowns necessary? | |
| Do we have time to create our own perfect Datepicker? | |
| Or do we try to customize something open source? | |
| How best to handle disabled buttons? |