UX Design Checklists
Aim to create a consistent project to follow and evolve as a design review checklist.
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Context
Checklist
Common question to run through when appraising a design.
Question | Reflections |
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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? |
Third-party checklists:
Design System Review
Elements | Notes |
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Golden rules | |
Key principles | |
Clarity | |
Familiarity | |
User Control | |
Hierarchy | |
Negative space | |
Flexibility | |
Accessibility |
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.