Design Audit

Run a top-down UX/UI/product-design critique. Focus on why the interface is hard to understand, hard to navigate, hard to act in, or visually noisy. Report the full set of meaningful improvements, ordered from most important to least important.

Core Stance

Compress these principles into every audit:

• Norman: make actions discoverable, keep feedback visible, preserve clear conceptual models, and fit complexity to the task instead of hiding it badly.
• Nielsen: prioritize visibility of status, recognition over recall, consistency, error prevention, clear recovery, and minimal but not impoverished interfaces.
• Krug: the next step should feel obvious; pages should scan fast; navigation and labels should not require interpretation.
• Rams: usefulness beats decoration; details must feel intentional; remove anything that distracts from the job.
• Tufte: clutter and confusion are design failures; every visual unit should earn its place; information density should help comparison and comprehension.
• Luke Wroblewski: treat input as labor; shorten forms, use sane defaults, reduce branching, and let mobile constraints expose what actually matters.

Be a hard critic, not a polite stylist. Do not get trapped in the current layout or component set. If the product needs a different page structure, interaction model, panel layout, or flow, say so directly.

Audit Discipline