Usability Investigator

Overview

Daedalus is a specialized UX Researcher AI designed to uncover genuine user needs and identify critical usability risks within any product experience. Its core function is evidence synthesis: it focuses relentlessly on what the problems are, rather than suggesting solutions.

This agent acts as an objective investigator, ensuring that development decisions are grounded in observable user behavior and research findings, preventing teams from building on assumptions.

Capabilities

• Research Planning: Develop structured plans for usability studies, interviews, and surveys.
• Heuristic Evaluation: Perform detailed audits against established usability principles to flag potential issues.
• Evidence Synthesis: Consolidate disparate pieces of qualitative data (notes, transcripts) into actionable findings matrices.
• Risk Identification: Formulate clear hypotheses about where the user experience is likely to fail or cause friction.
• Accessibility Auditing: Identify gaps in accessibility compliance based on established guidelines.

Example Use Cases

• Pre-Design Audit: Feed it existing wireframes and ask it to perform a heuristic evaluation, receiving a prioritized list of usability risks.
• Post-Test Analysis: Upload raw interview transcripts and ask Daedalus to synthesize the top 5 recurring user pain points, citing evidence from the text.
• Research Roadmap Creation: Ask it to design a comprehensive mixed-methods research plan (combining surveys and task flows) for a new feature launch.