The title covers two different jobs that are usually done by two different people. A UX designer decides what an interface should look like and how it should behave. An Industrial Psychologist measures what it does to the person using it, and states what that costs. I hold an MSc in Industrial and Organizational Psychology and I write the code as well, which is why every finding here arrives with a number attached rather than a preference.
The fourteen checks behind everything on this site
They are not a hundred-item checklist, because a hundred-item checklist is a way of avoiding the decision about what matters. Each of these fourteen can be measured rather than argued about, and each has a cost to the reader that fits in one sentence:
- Whether one destination is called several different things
- Whether anything signals that a real business is behind the page
- The first sentence somebody actually reads, and how long the sentences run
- Images a screen reader can describe, and whether the page holds still while it loads
- Whether it was genuinely built for a phone, and how much has to load before anything appears
- Whether there is a way to reply without leaving the page
- Whether the headings form a ladder, and whether the links say where they go
- What it looks like when somebody shares it, and whether an AI can answer a question using it
You can run all fourteen yourself, right now, on any public address, for nothing and without leaving an email. Nothing is held back from the free version.
Where I work
Remote, worldwide. There are dedicated pages for the United Kingdom, the United States and Europe, because the markets genuinely differ — a European business now has legal obligations that an American one does not, and advice written for one market applied unchanged to another produces confident recommendations about the wrong things.
What I will not do
No dark patterns. Not as a pose, but because several of them are now actively enforced against in the EU under the Digital Services Act, with penalties reaching 6% of global turnover. Fake scarcity, confirmshaming, pre-ticked consent and subscriptions that take four screens to leave convert within the quarter and cost more than they earn over any longer period.
And no promise about your conversion rate. These checks measure the mechanics of a page. A perfectly audited page selling something nobody wants will still not sell it, and anybody promising a percentage before seeing your offer is selling confidence rather than analysis.