quieter
Reduce visual intensity in designs that are too bold, aggressive, or overstimulating, creating a more refined and approachable aesthetic without losing effectiveness.
MANDATORY PREPARATION
Context Gathering (Do This First)
You cannot do a great job without having necessary context, such as target audience (critical), desired use-cases (critical), brand personality/tone, and everything else that a great human designer would need as well.
Attempt to gather these from the current thread or codebase.
- If you don't find exact information and have to infer from existing design and functionality, you MUST STOP and {{ask_instruction}} whether you got it right.
- Otherwise, if you can't fully infer or your level of confidence is medium or lower, you MUST {{ask_instruction}} clarifying questions first to complete your context.
Do NOT proceed until you have answers. Guessing leads to generic design.
Use frontend-design skill
Use the frontend-design skill for design principles and anti-patterns. Do NOT proceed until it has executed and you know all DO's and DON'Ts.
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design-brief
One-time setup that gathers design context for your project and saves it to your config file. Run once to establish persistent design guidelines.
30prd
Write a product requirements document from context. Covers problem statement, goals, scope, user stories, success criteria, and edge cases. Use when user says "write a PRD", "product requirements", "requirements doc", "spec this feature", "document requirements", or needs to define what to build and why.
17critique
Evaluate design effectiveness from a UX perspective. Use when user says "critique this design", "review the UX", "give design feedback", "is this good design", "design review", "evaluate this layout", or wants expert evaluative feedback on visual hierarchy, information architecture, and emotional resonance.
14security-scan
Check code for OWASP top 10 vulnerabilities including injection, XSS, auth issues, and secrets exposure. Use when user says "security audit", "check for vulnerabilities", "security scan", "is this secure", "OWASP check", "find security issues", or needs to verify code security before shipping.
13polish
Final quality pass before shipping. Fixes alignment, spacing, consistency, and detail issues. Use when user says "polish this", "final pass", "ready to ship", "fix the details", "pixel-perfect", "almost done", or when a feature is functionally complete but needs refinement.
13api-design
RESTful API design conventions covering URL structure, HTTP methods, error formats, pagination, versioning, and authentication patterns. Use when designing, reviewing, or implementing APIs. Triggers on API design, endpoint structure, REST conventions, or backend architecture tasks.
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