UX feedback comments examples (real user feedback)

Real examples of UX feedback comments grouped into patterns to help you understand where users are getting stuck, frustrated, or confused in your product.

Navigation & Information Architecture

"I spent like 10 minutes trying to find where to add a new workspace — ended up Googling it. It really shouldn't be that hard to find."
"The settings menu is kind of a maze. Billing is under 'Account' but team permissions are somewhere else entirely? I never know where to look."

Onboarding & First-Run Experience

"The setup wizard just... stops after step 3 and I wasn't sure if I'd done it right. Nothing confirmed that my Salesforce sync was actually connected."
"I signed up and honestly had no idea what to do first. There's no sample data or anything to click around with — it just feels empty when you start."

Performance & Loading Issues

"The dashboard takes forever to load if you have more than like 500 records. I've started just exporting to CSV because waiting 30 seconds every time is too much."
"Switching between projects is sluggish — there's this noticeable lag every single time. On our old tool it was instant so it's pretty noticeable to us."

Form & Input Friction

"Why does the date picker not let me just type in a date? I have to click through month by month which is really annoying when you're entering something from 2022."
"The bulk import keeps failing but the error message just says 'invalid format' — it doesn't tell me which row or what field is wrong. I've given up and I'm entering things one by one."

Mobile & Responsive Experience

"Tried to approve a request on my phone and the button was half off the screen. I had to pinch and zoom just to tap it — not great when you're doing a quick approval on the go."
"The mobile version is basically unusable for our field team. Tables don't resize, text overlaps, and the sidebar takes up half the screen on an iPhone. They've all gone back to emailing updates manually."

What these UX feedback comments reveal

  • Workarounds signal broken flows
    When users mention switching to CSV exports, manual emails, or Googling basic tasks, it reveals that a core workflow has enough friction to make the product feel unreliable for that job.
  • Vague error messages erode trust fast
    Feedback about unhelpful error states — like a bulk import failing with no row-level detail — shows users losing confidence in the product, not just patience with a bug.
  • Mobile issues disproportionately affect team adoption
    UX complaints from field or on-the-go users often represent entire segments being quietly excluded, since those users rarely escalate formally — they just stop using the product.

How to use these examples

  1. Tag every UX feedback comment by interaction type — navigation, forms, performance, onboarding, mobile — so you can spot which surface area has the highest complaint volume before prioritizing fixes.
  2. Look for the workaround mentioned inside the comment, not just the complaint itself. The workaround tells you the user's actual goal and gives your team a clearer design target than the surface-level frustration does.
  3. Cluster comments that reference the same specific feature or flow (like the Salesforce sync setup or the date picker) and bring that cluster — not a summary — directly into sprint planning so engineers and designers see the raw language users are using.

Decisions you can make

  • Reprioritize a navigation redesign when multiple users describe spending significant time searching for core features they expect to find quickly.
  • Add inline validation and row-level error messages to bulk import flows after repeated feedback that generic error states are causing users to abandon the feature entirely.
  • Invest in a mobile-responsive audit before expanding to field-facing teams or verticals where on-the-go usage is the norm, not the exception.
  • Build a confirmation state or checklist into onboarding flows when users consistently report uncertainty about whether their initial setup — like an integration — actually worked.
  • Set a performance benchmark and monitor dashboard load times by record volume after users begin self-reporting latency and switching to lower-fidelity workarounds like CSV exports.

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