Weeks of UX audit, compressed into an afternoon.
Heuristic Studio gives your team the structure senior reviewers carry in their heads: a framework, a severity scale, annotated evidence, and an export that looks like it cost £8,000.
How it works
THREE STEPS · ~20 MINUTESChoose a framework
Nielsen’s 10, Shneiderman’s Eight, or four more research-backed criteria sets — loaded as a working checklist.
Evaluate & annotate
Pin findings straight onto the screen, score severity from low to critical, keep the evidence attached to the claim.
- Low · Cosmetic
- Medium · Minor friction
- High · Major obstacle
- Critical · Blocks the task
Export the report
Client-ready PDF or shareable link, ordered by severity, ready for the readout.
The full audit toolkit, from framework to readout.
Choose a criteria set, draft findings with or without AI, and ship evidence-backed reports — every capability below works from day one.
The frameworks you already trust
Six research-backed criteria sets, from Nielsen’s classics to Bastien & Scapin’s ergonomic criteria — each loaded as a working checklist.
- Nielsen’s 10, Shneiderman’s Eight, and four more classic sets
- Every principle spelled out with a working definition
- Pick the right framework for each evaluation
A set of 10 general principles for interaction design, serving as broad rules of thumb.
The system should always keep users informed about what is going on, through appropriate feedback within reasonable time.
An accelerator for the first pass — never the reviewer of record
Point it at a screen and it drafts candidate findings against the framework you chose. There is no free AI tier — and the manual toolkit never depends on it.
- Accept, edit or dismiss every suggestion — nothing enters the report unsigned
- Bring your own Anthropic, OpenAI or Google key; usage bills to your provider
- Or buy studio credits — they never expire, no subscription
Every claim arrives with the screen that proves it
Pin a finding where it happens. The screenshot, heuristic, severity and recommendation travel together into the export — no re-pasting into slides the night before the readout.
- Annotate screenshots with numbered severity pins
- Findings arrive ordered by severity, evidence attached
- Export a client-ready PDF or share a live report link