Usability inspection is great if your team doesn't have a lot of time or resources. Usability inspection is the generic name for a set of methods for idea evaluation and finding usability issues. The advantage is that you don't need to contact users. Instead, the evaluation relies on usability principles and user needs.

Usability inspection usually involves evaluators — experts in evaluating interfaces — and a list of usability principles.

The most popular methods of usability inspection include:

• Heuristic evaluation
• Cognitive walkthrough
• Feature inspection
• Consistency inspection^[1]