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title: "Heuristic Evaluation - Air Market"
description: "You want to know what is wrong with an interface, but recruiting people to test it takes time you do not have. This runs an expert review against a well-known set of usability rules plus criteria for…"
canonical: "https://airmarket.ai/app/heuristic-evaluation"
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[Air Market](/) / [Design](/category/design) / Heuristic Evaluation

Skill by [MC Dean](/@owl-listener)

# Heuristic Evaluation

Get usability findings without recruiting a single participant

## What this does

You want to know what is wrong with an interface, but recruiting people to test it takes time you do not have. This runs an expert review against a well-known set of usability rules plus criteria for your domain, and rates how bad each problem is. Reach for it when you need findings now. A facilitated team session is a separate skill.

### Top 3 things it does for you

- Review an interface against known heuristics
- Rate how severe each problem is
- Get findings without running a study

## Information

**Heuristic Evaluation at a glance**

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| --- | --- |
| Kind | Skill |
| Publisher | [MC Dean](/@owl-listener) |
| Category | [Design](/category/design) |
| Works with | Agent Skills - an open standard supported by 40+ agents |
| Size | 2 KB |
| Licence | MIT |
| Repository | [Owl-Listener/designer-skills](https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designer-skills/tree/20e34c4a587e5eb09fcdf8351fa97b3ad761b31e/prototyping-testing/skills/heuristic-evaluation) |
| GitHub stars | 2,144 (as of Nov 2026) |

## Security report

**Verified.** AIR scanned this exact version of Heuristic Evaluation and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: **safe**.

**What Heuristic Evaluation's check was run against**

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| --- | --- |
| Commit | 20e34c4a587e5eb09fcdf8351fa97b3ad761b31e |
| Content hash | a3594e01d48ec44a8800a3c6aaa1921c9a644a421aa58b3bdd90c3f1b666fc78 |
| Files read | [Browse the files at this exact commit](https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designer-skills/blob/20e34c4a587e5eb09fcdf8351fa97b3ad761b31e/prototyping-testing/skills/heuristic-evaluation/SKILL.md) |

A scan is named by the exact content it read, not by a version number. A different version is a different artifact, and nothing here applies to a version AIR has not scanned.

[Read the full security report for Heuristic Evaluation](/security/heuristic-evaluation)

## About Heuristic Evaluation

This runs an expert review against Nielsen's heuristics along with domain criteria, and attaches severity ratings to what it finds.

Use it when you need findings without recruiting participants. For a facilitated team feedback session, it points to the design-critique skill.

## What's inside

- SKILL.md - instructions

## Questions

### Is Heuristic Evaluation safe to install?

AIR scanned this exact version of Heuristic Evaluation and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: safe. The verdict is named by the content that was read, at commit 20e34c4a587e, so it cannot drift onto a version nobody scanned. The full report is at https://airmarket.ai/security/heuristic-evaluation.

### How do I install Heuristic Evaluation?

Open https://airmarket.ai/app/heuristic-evaluation on Air Market and use the install action: Air Market hands Claude a prompt naming this exact skill, and Claude sets it up. Source, pinned to the exact commit this listing describes: https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designer-skills/tree/20e34c4a587e5eb09fcdf8351fa97b3ad761b31e/prototyping-testing/skills/heuristic-evaluation. Install from that link, not the branch.

## Related on Air Market

- [More Design listings](/category/design)
- [Everything by MC Dean](/@owl-listener)

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Canonical URL: <https://airmarket.ai/app/heuristic-evaluation>