| name | redesign |
| description | Upgrade an existing website or app to premium quality without breaking functionality — audit the current design, identify generic/AI tells, then apply taste and system rules surgically. Use when the user wants to improve, modernize, polish, or "make better" an existing UI/codebase. |
Skill: Redesign & Audit
Audit-first redesign that preserves behavior.
Steps
- Read
workflows/redesign-audit.md (the full Scan → Diagnose → Direct → Apply → Verify sequence + Output Completeness).
- Scan the codebase: framework, styling method (→ route to the matching
frameworks/ adapter), token reality, components, what must be preserved.
- Diagnose with the Banned Defaults checklist (
taste/design-taste.md) + the review rubric (design-review skill). Produce a prioritized findings table.
- Direct: choose an archetype/system (
apply-aesthetic skill) that fits the brand.
- Apply in order — tokens first, then typography/spacing, then component states, then motion — without changing routes/data/markup semantics (except a11y fixes).
- Verify: re-run
design-review + a11y-audit; smoke-test every previously working flow; dark mode + responsive spot-check. Run scripts/validate_contrast.py on the token source and scripts/lint_hardcodes.py over the changed code.
Guardrails
Never sacrifice a working feature for aesthetics. Never ship a brand color that fails contrast. Never remove existing accessibility affordances. Deliver complete files — no placeholders.
Single-theme consistency (critical for multi-page apps)
Consolidate to ONE shared token theme and make every page consume it — a redesign that leaves different pages on different palettes has failed. Replace per-page/ad-hoc colors with semantic tokens; verify with scripts/lint_hardcodes.py that no page reintroduces off-theme values. Theme switches must come from the single token source, not page edits (CLAUDE.md → Single-Theme Consistency).
