Design — Ideate

Produce genuinely different interface directions so the user chooses deliberately, not by default. Each direction is a different organizing principle for the same goal — not a recolor of one layout. The output makes tradeoffs explicit so the choice is reasoned.

When to use

• After context/research, before building anything.
• The user wants options ("give me a few layouts") not a single answer.
• A flow could be structured multiple valid ways and you want to surface the tradeoffs.

When NOT to use

• The brief is unclear → design-get-context first.
• One direction is already chosen → go to design-image-to-code / design-prototype.
• It's a tiny tweak to an existing screen → just do it / design-audit.

Inputs

• ./design/context.md (goal, user, success) + ./design/research.md (patterns, pains) if they exist.
• The screen/flow to design.