How to Pass Your First Design Review: A Complete UX Self‑Check Checklist

Design Before

Fully understand product requirements, background, goals, and the problem to be solved.

Identify target users, their characteristics, and business scenarios; consider better alternatives.

Validate the authenticity of requirements and assess potential negative user‑experience impacts.

Conduct competitive research on at least three similar scenarios for direct and indirect competitors.

Review the interaction plan to ensure it covers all scenarios and states, and propose improvements if needed.

Design In Progress

Product Perspective

Confirm the design solves the product’s problem.

Ensure the design helps achieve product goals.

Check that copy is clear, consistent, and free of jargon or errors.

Design Perspective

Verify a logical hierarchy; avoid flat layouts that hide key information.

Maintain a consistent visual style (font size, color, icons, corner radius, etc.).

Design for all edge cases (weak network, timeouts, empty states, loading, max/min content, error messages, button states).

Provide detailed design specifications for complex or development‑critical elements.

Consider device‑specific adaptations (e.g., Android vs. iOS font weight).

Plan cross‑platform adaptations for multiple apps, mini‑programs, H5, PC, etc.

Ensure all assets (fonts, images, videos, audio) are properly licensed.

Use realistic text and data that match the actual scenario.

Design After

Confirm slice ranges are communicated with developers to avoid rework.

Ask product managers to embed tracking points for data validation.

Conduct a thorough design‑to‑development handoff review, checking styles and interactions (including iPhone home‑indicator compatibility).

Update the component library with any new components and inform other designers.

Analyze post‑launch data and feedback to perform a design retrospective.