UX Audit Services

Find exactly where your product loses people — and why.

A professional UX audit gives you a clear, prioritized picture of the comprehension and usability gaps breaking your product experience. No surveys, no guesswork. An expert walks your product and tells you what real users are struggling with.

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Deliverables in 1–2 weeks No recruitment needed Health tech & beauty specialist
What it is

A UX audit is a structured expert review of your product experience.

Unlike user testing — which requires recruiting, scheduling, and running sessions — a UX audit uses an expert researcher's trained eye to evaluate your product against how real users think and behave. It's faster, lower-cost, and often more direct: an experienced researcher can identify the same patterns in hours that user testing surfaces over weeks.

A Legible Research UX audit focuses specifically on the comprehension-to-action gap — the space between what your product is communicating and what users actually understand well enough to act on. This is the gap that causes drop-off, abandonment, and subscription cancellation in health and beauty products.

A UX audit is the right fit when…

You know something is wrong in a specific flow but can't pinpoint what — and need answers fast

Users are dropping off at a specific step — quiz, results page, onboarding — and you need to know why

You're pre-launch and want expert eyes on the experience before it ships

You want a fast, low-commitment way to understand the value of research before investing in a larger study

Your team has competing opinions about what's broken — you need an outside perspective to align on priorities

What's included

Every audit covers six areas.

Each area is reviewed against your users' likely mental models — not just design best practices. Health and beauty users have specific expectations, anxieties, and trust requirements that generic heuristics miss.

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Comprehension review

Every piece of copy in the specified flow — labels, instructions, results, error messages — evaluated for whether users will understand it on first read.

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Navigation & flow analysis

Where the sequence breaks, where users are likely to get lost, and where the path forward is unclear or counter-intuitive.

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Trust signal evaluation

What your product is — and isn't — communicating about why users should trust its recommendations, data, or advice.

Friction point mapping

Specific moments where cognitive load, uncertainty, or poor copy creates hesitation — and where users are most likely to abandon.

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User signal synthesis

App Store reviews, Reddit threads, and public feedback analyzed to triangulate real user pain points against what the audit finds.

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Prioritized recommendations

Every finding comes with a severity rating and a specific recommendation. High, medium, and low priority — so your team knows exactly where to start.

What you receive

A report your team can act on immediately.

Investment

$2,500–$4,500
flat project fee · no recruitment costs

Timeline

1–2 weeks
from brief to final report

Scope

One focused flow
onboarding · quiz · results · checkout
Who it's for

Built for teams that need answers quickly.

Product teams without a dedicated researcher

You're moving fast and research keeps getting deprioritized. A UX audit gives you expert findings without the overhead of running a full study.

Consumer health startups

Your product only works if users understand what they're being told. A UX audit identifies the comprehension gaps before they show up in churn data.

Beauty and DTC brands

When personalization is your promise, users who don't understand their recommendation won't trust it. An audit identifies exactly where the trust signal breaks.

Teams preparing for a launch or redesign

Pre-launch is the best time to catch comprehension issues. Significantly cheaper to fix in design than post-release.

Common questions

About UX audits.

How is a UX audit different from usability testing?
A UX audit is an expert review — it doesn't involve recruiting or running sessions with real users. It's faster, lower-cost, and best for identifying clear structural, copy, and flow issues. Usability testing involves observing real users interact with your product in real time, which is better for validating specific hypotheses or when you're uncertain whether your own assumptions about the problem are correct. Often the best approach is to start with an audit and follow with targeted user testing on the highest-priority issues.
What do you need from us to get started?
Access to the product (a test account or staging environment works fine), a clear scope (which flow or section of the product you want reviewed), and a brief explaining the question you most want answered. We can work out the scope together in a 20-minute call if you're not sure where to focus.
What if we need more than one flow reviewed?
Multi-flow audits can be scoped — the price reflects the breadth of review. If you have several areas to address, I'll quote based on scope. Many teams start with the one flow where the problem is most acute, then return for subsequent audits once they've seen the format and value of the first.
Will you tell us how to fix the problems, or just identify them?
Both. Every finding includes a specific recommendation — not just "this is unclear" but "here's the direction the copy or design should move in." For copy issues, I'll often provide a rewritten example alongside the recommendation.
Do you specialize in any particular types of products?
Yes — consumer health, telehealth, and beauty and skincare products. These are categories where the comprehension-to-action gap is highest and the cost of user confusion is most direct. Generic UX audits often miss the specific trust, sensitivity, and behavior-change dynamics of these categories. That specialist focus is what makes the work useful rather than generic.
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