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before AI, UX review was usually part of exploratory testing after implementation, but now it's both cheap and necessary to do upfront
gojkoa on Hacker News
In the thread “Ask HN: How has AI changed your QA validation workflows?”
Helped: Building static demo pages for early UX review and accessibility audits.
… once a human is happy, the implementation work starts. before AI, UX review was usually part of exploratory testing after implementation, but now it's both cheap and necessary to do upfront. The demo pages become a part of the spec, and they are a baseline for automated testing at the end. …