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UX audit for a SaaS product: what it covers, and how to prepare
A UX audit is a review of your product’s key flows against what your users are trying to do. It ends with a ranked list of problems, each with the screen where it happens and a way to fix it. Its role is to tell you where to start; the redesign comes after.
What a UX audit covers
An audit focuses on the paths that matter to your business. For most SaaS products, that means:
- Onboarding: from sign-up to the first moment the product is useful.
- The two or three core tasks your customers pay for.
- Navigation: can people find a feature on their own?
- Consistency: the same action looks and behaves the same everywhere.
- Accessibility basics: contrast, keyboard use, readable error messages.
What you get at the end
A good audit is short enough to act on. Expect a list of findings ranked by severity, a screenshot for each, and a clear line between quick fixes, which a developer can ship this sprint, and structural issues, which need design work first.
How to prepare in a week
- Give access to a production-like account with realistic data.
- Share your product analytics, even rough: where people drop off, which features sit unused.
- Pull the last fifty support tickets. They are the cheapest user research you have.
- Write down the one metric you want to move. It decides which flows get audited first.
When a redesign is the better answer
If every finding points back to the same root cause, such as a navigation built for a product you have since outgrown, the fix is structural. The audit then becomes the brief for a redesign, which is a useful outcome too.
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