uxdebt
nounUK /juːˈeks det/
US /juːˈeks det/
A pile of small design problems that make an app or website harder to use.
The team spent the sprint paying down uxdebt by fixing confusing buttons and menus.
OTHER MEANINGS
2. The extra work created when quick design shortcuts are taken to ship a product fast.
Shipping the checkout page without testing added a lot of uxdebt.
3. A backlog of known user-experience issues waiting to be fixed.
Our uxdebt list has forty small fixes that users keep complaining about.
4. The growing cost of ignoring user feedback over time.
Ignoring support tickets turned into uxdebt that slowed every release.