Assess Your UI: Heuristic Evaluations

UX Research | August 2025

New guidance for heuristic evaluations is now available to help teams review their UI and identify common usability problems—quickly and cost effectively. With a heuristic evaluation, you can follow a ready-to-use framework to assess a design against a set of industry-standard principles (also called heuristics) and ensure that your product feels intuitive and consistent to users.

We recommend it for product teams, designers, and business analysts who want to:

• Reduce trivial issues
• Audit existing features
• Build stakeholder cases for UX improvements

In addition, it’s a great solution for teams that are working under tight deadlines or might not have immediate access to end users.

Also included are two new resources: An Excel checklist with questions to guide your evaluation and a PowerPoint template to help you present your findings to stakeholders.