BoardSnap is an iOS app that reads whiteboard usability reviews and turns heuristic violations, pain point clusters, and severity ratings into a clean findings report with prioritized action items.
Usability reviews — whether heuristic evaluations, expert reviews, or findings synthesis from user testing — generate a lot of whiteboard content. Severity ratings, violation codes, user quotes, pain point clusters. The information density is high.
And it's time-sensitive. The team is in the room. The expert is at the board. The moment the session ends, that expert walks out and the whiteboard is all you have.
Transcribing usability findings manually is slow and lossy. You forget which severity rating went with which finding. You leave out the "by the way" observation someone added in the margin. You spend forty minutes writing a document that should have taken ten.
Write your severity scale in the corner (0-4, or Critical / High / Medium / Low). BoardSnap reads whatever system you use.
Write each finding with a severity marker, the affected screen or component, and a one-line description. Short is fine — BoardSnap reads it, you don't need full prose.
If you have direct user quotes or task failure data, write them adjacent to the relevant finding. BoardSnap groups evidence with its finding.
Circle related findings that point to the same underlying issue. This is the most valuable annotation BoardSnap can read — clusters become linked action items.
One shot. BoardSnap reads the severity markers, finding descriptions, evidence, and cluster annotations together.
The output lists each finding with its severity, affected area, evidence (if annotated), and related issues. Critical and high severity items become immediate action items.
A severity-sorted findings report: each usability issue with its description, severity, affected screen or component, supporting evidence, and a tri-state action item. Clustered findings are grouped under a shared root cause. The report is formatted for direct use as a design brief or development backlog.
A UX consultant worked through twelve screens and logged twenty-three violations across four severity levels. BoardSnap's output was the final deliverable — the consultant snapped the board and sent the summary directly to the product team.
Findings from five user sessions clustered on a whiteboard as sticky notes. BoardSnap read the clusters, grouped related pain points, and generated a prioritized backlog of five root issues with sub-findings.
Yes. BoardSnap AI reads number ratings (1–4), color codes (if labeled), and text labels (Critical, High, Medium, Low). Whatever system you use consistently, it picks up.
Yes — synthesis sessions are one of the best BoardSnap use cases. After a round of user testing, the findings board is complex and time-sensitive. Snap it at the end of the synthesis session and you have a shareable document immediately.
Snap each board separately into the same BoardSnap Project. Then use the project AI chat to ask for a severity summary across all boards — it synthesizes across the full project.
The output is plain text — copy and paste it wherever you share deliverables. If you've set up brand context for a client project, the summaries sound like your agency's voice, not a generic tool output.
Snap the board, ship the action items in ten seconds.