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Ask HN: UX – What time consuming tasks have you successfully automated?

3•iolmao•6mo ago
I've been doing UX analysis professionally for 15 years, mostly for e-commerce brands. The work involves heuristic evaluation - sitting down with other experts, systematically reviewing interfaces, usually documenting everything in Excel spreadsheets.

The process works, but translating those spreadsheets into actionable insights is challenging. You end up with lots of observations but prioritizing issues, creating meaningful summaries, and getting a clear overall picture isn't immediately obvious. Finding the right priorities from scattered findings takes significant effort.

I ended up building UX Critique (uxcritique.app) - analysts can choose between a rapid AI scan for quick insights or do a complete manual evaluation with structured reporting. Both approaches generate prioritized, actionable reports instead of scattered spreadsheet findings.

The interesting part was realizing how much of expert work consists of systematic, repeatable components alongside the genuine expertise. The tool handles the systematic structuring so analysts can focus on prioritization and contextual recommendations, whether they prefer AI-assisted or fully manual analysis.

I'm curious what similar experiences others have had - where you've found ways to improve professional workflows while preserving expert control over the process?

Comments

brudgers•6mo ago
If your projecct meets the guidelines, it might make a good 'Show HN'.

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fuzzfactor•6mo ago
If you're using spreadsheets you may like this one from another article a few days ago about some Slow things people wait for or work toward that may or may not come to pass in their own lifetime:

>by the time the late 90's rolled around, I already had my own company for a number of years (knew that was going to take decades too so I had started in that direction as a teenager) and by then had more than one computer. Woo hoo!

>And megabytes! Oh Yeah!

>Plus Office '97 which put the "paperless office" within reach even though paperwork was my primary deliverable product.

  . . . skip over barbed-wire fence of text . . .
>I had already been pitched in the early '90's by neural net vendors

  . . . carefully, ooh that's sharp . . .
>Anyway, there's still a blank tab on an XLS spreadsheet where the tabs to the left are all the "very important" data which I ruminate about then do a little typing accordingly before hitting the button. Then the tabs to the right get populated sequentially and filtered until the final tab spits out a file that gets emailed to the client. It comes straight from Excel with letterhead and fonts virtually indistinguishable from Word. At the beginning with MS-Word I was faxing with a dedicated land line plugged directly into the PC, now email or not when the client prints it there are very few ways to tell the difference from when I would fax them a signed page from my typewriter too.

The only thing lacking for total automation is adequate AI to be able to fill in that blank tab for me, it was designed for that but AI wasn't perfected and I wouldn't have made more money on each job anyway. It only takes a couple minutes of review and thinking based on 40 years of niche technical leadership (where fewer decades [above zero] were designed to be proportionally as effective) for each job. If AI would become an effective alternative to personal decision-making, this one spreadsheet has been waiting for almost 30 years to choose between manual and automatic whenever you want. But even when the clients are urgently waiting for the papers to take to the bank, they usually still waste more time than two minutes before looking at their email, sometimes more so than walking to the fax machine in the old days.

Your "much of expert work consists of systematic, repeatable components alongside the genuine expertise." is right along these lines, except there's only a blank tab alongside the raw data where the AI would be for me, since the expertise can not be contained without compromise.

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