Just like tech debt, design debt is a thing and an equally costly one too.
PROBLEM
- The move fast culture of agile teams result in a backlog of minor design flaws and deviations that pile up of over time resulting in poor user experience.
- For teams with no UX function, non-compliance with design principles is common. You don't know what you don't know right.
- Design QA is tedious, and the tooing and frooing with Developers is time consuming
IDEA
A tool that discovers and flags design flaws, then suggests fixes to improve usability.
Automated UX audit - https://www.loom.com/share/4ed46f0859c14976992a8cf5a7cf73c7
Automated design QA (functional & acceptance) -https://www.loom.com/share/99b4f5addc5e465792f65cbcece4b394
Effort vs impact is ranked against importance of design principles for prioritisation.
THINGS TO BE AWARE OF
- I've deliberately only added 9 design principles. I'm still not sure how to rank their importance
- I've deliberately left out Accessibility as it has 5 subcategories of its own. Can't decide if it should be listed on its own tab or not
- The usability audit would start by grabbing screen captures
ASK
- I'm looking for critical feedback
- Would love to hear about your design debt stories
- If you're having a 'where do I sign up' moment, you can do that here - https://get.seemetry.io/