# Usability rescue

Recipe · Design recipes · RC15

People get lost or make mistakes. Find out where, then fix it.

## Steps

1. `/ux-heuristics`: usability audit by Nielsen's rules
2. `/design-everyday-things`: the why: affordances, feedback, mapping
3. `/impeccable distill`: cut what is in the way
4. `/ux-writing`: labels and errors that explain themselves

## As one prompt

```text
Usability rescue. People get lost or make mistakes. Find out where, then fix it.
Run these in order, and check in with me between steps:
1. /ux-heuristics: usability audit by Nielsen's rules
2. /design-everyday-things: the why: affordances, feedback, mapping
3. /impeccable distill: cut what is in the way
4. /ux-writing: labels and errors that explain themselves
```

Source: https://atlasscope.dev/prompts/usability-rescue