UX Audit Services for Web and Mobile Products

When users churn, support tickets keep coming in, or a feature gets ignored, the cause is rarely the feature itself, it's usually the experience around it.

A UX audit is a structured evaluation of an existing product that identifies where users struggle, why they leave, and what changes would have the highest impact on conversion, retention, or task completion. It uses heuristic analysis, analytics review, session recording analysis, and user testing to produce a prioritised list of specific, concrete improvements rather than a general list of design suggestions.

RaftLabs UX audits cover web applications, SaaS products, mobile apps, and e-commerce interfaces. The deliverable is a prioritised findings report with specific recommendations, severity ratings, and design direction for each finding, so the product team can act on it immediately rather than commissioning a new discovery project.

  • Heuristic evaluation against established usability principles applied to every key flow in your product

  • Analytics and session recording analysis to identify where users actually drop off versus where you think they do

  • Usability testing with representative users to validate findings and surface problems that analytics can't explain

  • Prioritised recommendations report with severity ratings and design direction for each finding

Recent outcomes

Voice AI · Research

6× deeper insights

Text-based interviews converted to automated phone calls

AI Automation · Ops

20k+ txns day one

Manual invoice OCR across 40+ gas stations

Loyalty · Retail

1,062 users in 4 weeks

SuperValu & Centra loyalty platform with receipt validation

SaaS · Logistics

2,000+ shipments yr 1

Multi-carrier shipping hub for Indonesian eCommerce

4.9
on Clutch
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The problem

Sound familiar?

  • Do you know your product's conversion rate or retention rate at each step, but not why users drop off at those specific points?

  • Has a feature shipped that users consistently misuse or ignore, and the team doesn't know whether it's a discoverability problem or a value problem?

Short answer

RaftLabs runs evidence-based UX audits for web, SaaS, mobile, and e-commerce products, combining heuristic evaluation against Nielsen's 10 usability heuristics, analytics and session-recording review, WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility checks, and usability testing with 5 to 8 representative users. A focused audit of one core flow starts around $3,000 and delivers in 2 to 3 weeks; a full product audit runs 3 to 6 weeks. The deliverable is a prioritised, severity-rated findings report with a specific fix for each issue.

Key takeaways

  • RaftLabs UX audits cover web applications, SaaS products, mobile apps, and e-commerce interfaces
  • Each audit combines heuristic evaluation against Nielsen's 10 heuristics, analytics and session-recording review, WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility checks, and usability testing with 5 to 8 representative users
  • The deliverable is a prioritised findings report with severity ratings and a specific fix for each finding
  • Session-recording review uses tools including Hotjar and FullStory to find where users actually drop off, backed by timestamped clips
  • A focused audit of one core flow delivers in 2 to 3 weeks from around $3,000; a full product audit runs 3 to 6 weeks, at a fixed cost agreed before it starts

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Most product teams have a general sense that something is wrong with the experience, conversion is lower than expected, a specific step has high abandonment, support keeps fielding the same questions. What they don't have is a prioritised, evidence-backed list of the specific problems causing those outcomes. A UX audit produces that list. The distinction between "users are dropping off at checkout" and "users are dropping off at the payment details step because the error message doesn't identify which field is invalid" is the difference between knowing there's a problem and knowing what to fix.

The value of a UX audit is that it directs design and engineering effort toward the changes with the highest impact. Without it, redesign projects start from aesthetic preference, "the interface feels dated", rather than from documented usability problems. With it, the redesign brief is specific: these seven flows have documented problems at these specific points, prioritised by severity. The audit doesn't replace the redesign; it makes the redesign far more likely to solve the right problems.

The business case for fixing UX is well documented. For product teams where conversion or retention is the metric that matters, an audit is the intervention that makes those gains achievable without a full redesign.

Why UX debt costs money

conversion lift a well-designed interface can produce
Up to 200%
Forrester Research
higher conversions from a 10% increase in UX investment
83%
UXCam
returned for every $1 invested in UX
$100
Forrester Research

Capabilities

What we build

  • 01
    Heuristic evaluation

    Structured evaluation of your product against established usability heuristics, applied by a practitioner who has reviewed 50+ production interfaces. Each heuristic produces specific findings with a severity rating from Cosmetic to Critical and a specific fix, not general impressions. The evaluation covers every key flow, not just the primary conversion path, with findings de-duplicated so each issue appears once as one clear fix.

    Built with
    Nielsen's 10 heuristics
  • 02
    Analytics and funnel analysis

    Review of your existing analytics data to identify where user behaviour diverges from design intent, examining funnel completion, exit rates, and feature usage and investigating anomalies like a 40% drop-off step that has never been benchmarked. Cohort analysis shows whether specific onboarding steps predict retention, and missing tracking is identified and prioritised to close the gaps that leave the product team guessing.

    Built with
    GA4 · Mixpanel · Amplitude · PostHog
  • 03
    Session recording analysis

    Systematic analysis of session recordings, targeted at the flows where analytics show problems rather than random browsing. Rage clicks reveal broken or misleading elements, hesitation patterns expose confusing form fields, click maps often contradict what the team believes the primary path is, and scroll depth shows whether your value proposition is even seen. Filters isolate sessions from abandoners, unconverted paid traffic, or mobile users.

    Built with
    Hotjar · FullStory · LogRocket
  • 04
    Usability testing

    Moderated or unmoderated usability sessions with 5-8 representative users, enough to surface roughly 85% of significant problems per Nielsen's research. Tasks are framed as realistic goals, not click instructions, and think-aloud protocol surfaces the mental-model mismatches behind wrong turns. We measure task success, time-on-task, and navigation errors, and deliver timestamped video evidence so each finding links to a clip.

    Built with
    UserTesting · Maze
  • 05
    Accessibility audit

    WCAG 2.1 AA compliance evaluation, the standard behind the UK Equality Act, US ADA, and European Accessibility Act. Automated scanning catches the machine-detectable violations while manual review and screen reader testing cover the rest, including contrast failures, missing focus indicators, and keyboard traps. Each finding includes the specific WCAG criterion, the affected element with a selector, and the code-level fix.

    Built with
    WCAG 2.1 AA · axe-core · NVDA · VoiceOver
  • 06
    Prioritised recommendations report

    Consolidated findings from all audit methods, de-duplicated and prioritised into a document a product team can take directly into sprint planning. Every finding includes evidence, a severity rating, root cause, and a specific design recommendation, and a priority matrix plots impact against effort, putting Quick Wins at the top and explicitly deprioritising low-impact items. All evidence assets are linked.

    Built with
    Notion · Confluence · PDF

How we run the audit

From scope to prioritised fix list

A UX audit is a fixed-scope engagement. Scope and cost are agreed in writing before it starts, and the report is a standalone deliverable whether or not a design engagement follows.

  1. Days 1-3
    01

    Scope and instrument

    We agree the flows in scope, the conversion or retention metric that matters, and the user types to test. We confirm analytics and session-recording coverage (GA4, Mixpanel, Hotjar, or FullStory) and flag any tracking gaps that would leave a flow un-measurable. You get a written scope and a fixed price before any evaluation begins.

  2. Week 1
    02

    Heuristic and accessibility evaluation

    Each flow is evaluated against Nielsen's 10 usability heuristics and WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility criteria. Every issue is logged once, with a severity rating from Cosmetic to Critical, the heuristic or criterion it breaks, and the specific element it affects. No general impressions, only located, fixable findings.

  3. Weeks 1-2
    03

    Analytics and session review

    We read your funnel data against the design intent, isolate the steps where users actually drop off, then pull the session recordings for those steps. Rage clicks, hesitation on form fields, and click maps that contradict the assumed path each become a finding backed by a timestamped clip.

  4. Week 2
    04

    Usability testing

    Moderated sessions with 5 to 8 representative users per user type, enough to surface roughly 85% of significant problems (Nielsen). Tasks are framed as real goals, not click scripts, and a think-aloud protocol exposes the mental-model mismatch behind each wrong turn. We measure task success, time-on-task, and navigation errors.

  5. Weeks 2-3
    05

    Prioritised findings report

    Every finding from every method is de-duplicated into one document your team can take straight into sprint planning. Each issue carries evidence, severity, root cause, and a specific design recommendation, plotted on an impact-versus-effort matrix so the quick wins sit at the top. Delivered in Notion, Confluence, or PDF.

A focused audit of one core flow starts around $3,000 to $6,000 and delivers in 2 to 3 weeks. A full audit across every major flow, with session-recording analysis, accessibility evaluation, and a full usability test, runs $8,000 to $15,000 over 3 to 6 weeks. The cost is fixed and agreed before the audit starts, priced on the number of flows and distinct user types in scope.

Have a product that's not converting or retaining?

Tell us the specific flow where users drop off, what analytics you have, and what you've already tried. We'll scope the audit and give you a fixed cost.

What clients say

What our clients say

Three-year average engagement. Founders and operators describing the work in their own words. No marketing varnish.

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Charles E.
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Entrepreneur at Aggie Technologies

All of the sprints were completed on schedule and on budget. We highly recommend RaftLabs!

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Frequently asked questions

A design review is typically an expert opinion on the visual and interaction design of a product. A UX audit is evidence-based: it combines heuristic evaluation with analytics data, session recordings, and user testing to produce findings that are grounded in observable user behaviour rather than design opinion. The output is a prioritised list of specific problems with evidence for why each is a problem, not a list of design suggestions.

Research by Jakob Nielsen established that 5 users find approximately 85% of usability problems in a product. For a focused audit of a specific flow, 5 to 8 users is sufficient to identify the significant problems. For products with very different user types (for example, admin users vs. end users with different workflows), separate test sessions with each user type are more useful than increasing the total number of participants. We scope the user testing component based on the number of distinct user types in your product.

A focused audit of a specific product area or flow, heuristic evaluation, analytics review, and 5-user usability test, typically takes 2 to 3 weeks. A full audit of your product including all major flows, session recording analysis, accessibility evaluation, and a full usability test typically takes 3 to 6 weeks. Fixed cost agreed before the audit starts.

A focused audit of one core flow starts around $3,000 to $6,000. A full audit across all major flows, with session-recording analysis, WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility evaluation, and a full usability test, runs $8,000 to $15,000. The cost is fixed and agreed in writing before the audit starts, priced on the number of flows and distinct user types in scope. The audit is a standalone deliverable whether or not a design engagement follows.

The audit delivers a prioritised findings report with specific design direction for each finding. Many clients use the report to brief their internal design team or a separate design sprint. For clients who want RaftLabs to design the fixes, the audit transitions into a design engagement scoped based on the audit findings, the highest-severity items first. The audit is a standalone service with a fixed cost regardless of whether a subsequent design project follows.

Work with us

Tell us what you need. We'll tell you what it would take.

We scope UX Audit in 30 minutes. You walk away with a clear cost, timeline, and approach. No commitment required.

  • Scope and cost agreed before work starts. No surprises. No obligation.
  • Working prototype within 3 weeks of kickoff.
  • Pay by milestone. You see progress before each invoice.
  • 60-day post-launch warranty. Bug fixes, UI tweaks, and deployment support. No retainer.
  • All conversations are NDA-protected.