design-skills

Conduct accessibility audits against WCAG 2.2 guidelines. Evaluate pages, components, and flows for conformance at A, AA, and AAA levels. Identify issues, assess severity, provide code fixes, and generate audit reports. Covers automated testing, manual testing, keyboard navigation, screen reader compatibility, color contrast, and semantic HTML.

Create user-centered, accessible interface copy (microcopy) for digital products including buttons, labels, error messages, notifications, forms, onboarding, empty states, success messages, and help text. Use when writing or editing any text that appears in apps, websites, or software interfaces, designing conversational flows, establishing voice and tone guidelines, auditing product content for consistency and usability, reviewing UI strings, or improving existing interface copy. Applies UX writing best practices based on four quality standards — purposeful, concise, conversational, and clear. Includes accessibility guidelines, research-backed benchmarks (sentence length, comprehension rates, reading levels), expanded error patterns, tone adaptation frameworks, and comprehensive reference materials.

Comprehensive design elevation system that automatically transforms functional visual outputs into polished, professional designs. Use when creating ANY visual output including presentations (pptx), spreadsheets (xlsx), dashboards, reports, HTML artifacts, PDFs, web pages, or data visualizations. Applies systematic design thinking grounded in Tailwind CSS as the canonical design token system. Structures decisions through functional patterns (what users interact with) and perceptual patterns (how the design feels), following Alla Kholmatova's design systems framework. Triggers on ALL requests for visual content creation, ensuring outputs look hand-crafted rather than template-based.

Create customer journey maps, service blueprints, experience maps, empathy maps, and other alignment diagrams. Guides diagram type selection, content structure, illustration syntax, and alignment workshops.

Evaluate UI designs against usability heuristics, UX laws, interaction patterns, interaction design principles, information architecture, and content quality. Conduct heuristic evaluations, structured design critiques, pattern-based reviews, posture analysis, excise audits, IA evaluations, and UX writing reviews. Provides specific, actionable feedback grounded in established principles rather than subjective opinion.

Run design sprints, manage handoff, establish team rituals, documentation standards, and design QA processes. Covers the operational side of design — how teams organize work, collaborate with engineering, and ship quality.

Design meaningful interactions, microinteractions, animations, state machines, gesture patterns, error prevention, and product behavior. Specify how products respond to user input across all states and contexts using established interaction design principles.

Plan, conduct, and analyze UX research using proven methodologies. Use when planning user research, writing interview scripts, creating test plans, recruiting participants, analyzing qualitative data, or synthesizing findings into actionable insights. Covers generative, evaluative, and continuous discovery research with specific frameworks, scoring rubrics, and templates.

Connect design decisions to business outcomes through competitive analysis, opportunity mapping, Jobs to Be Done, outcome-driven discovery, value proposition design, and UX metrics. Shape product direction with strategic frameworks grounded in evidence.

Build, document, and maintain design systems with design tokens, component specifications, pattern libraries, naming conventions, and governance processes. Conduct system audits, define component hierarchies, and establish shared design languages.