# Userium: Usability Checklist for the AI Age

> A free, copyable prompt-based usability checklist for auditing websites. Originally created in 2013, resurrected for 2026.

The checklist contains 56 items across 10 categories, each with a detailed prompt you can paste into an AI tool to audit any website against proven usability principles.

## Categories

- User Experience (7 items)
- Homepage (5 items)
- Navigation & Information Architecture (6 items)
- Accessibility (7 items)
- Forms & Input (6 items)
- Content & Readability (5 items)
- Performance & Technical (6 items)
- Trust & Privacy (6 items)
- AI Readiness (4 items)
- User Rights (4 items)

## Grounded in

- Jakob Nielsen: 10 Usability Heuristics
- Don Norman: The Design of Everyday Things
- Steve Krug: Don't Make Me Think
- W3C: WCAG 2.2

## Links

- Website: https://www.userium.com
- Creator: Nina Patkai, M.Sc. Eng.
- Company: EVcourse (https://www.evcourse.com)
- License: CC BY-SA 4.0