How many of you have seen a website teardown and thought “Dude you literally have 0 data, this is just a vibes analysis?”
I have that thought regularly. And it got me thinking about heuristic audits as a whole, and trying to understand what makes a good heuristic audit good, and a bad heuristic audit bad. I enlisted the help of my mortal enemy Rishi Rawat to explore this.
Vibes were immaculate, and he actually said some smart things in this episode (shocker - I know).
We got into:
- The critical missing ingredients to take your heuristic from ‘shit’ to not only trustworthy, BUT valuable
- Where many heuristic audits fail to be meaningfully impactful (despite being positioned as such)
- An exploration of “expert” vs “non-expert” heuristic audits (and why both are incredibly valuable)
Timestamps:
00:00 Episode Start
2:08 What Is a Heuristic Audit (With Help from Ryan Thomas)
8:53 Good Heuristic Audits Are Systematic in Nature
12:22 The "Goal" of the Heuristic Audit May Be More Important Than the Process
16:20 The Importance Of Data to Informing The Heuristic Audit
22:01 Rishi Actually Says Something Smart
27:07 Heuristic Audits Should Highlight BOTH The Good AND The Bad
35:29 Many Heuristic Audits Don't Simulate Emotion (Yet They Should....)
Go follow Rishi Rawat on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rawatrishi/
Go check out the homie Ryan Thomas:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryancharlesthomas/
Also go follow Shiva Manjunath on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shiva-manjunath/
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