Design Inspiration Research

Research exists to change design decisions, not to produce a link dump.

This skill works with reference-intelligence. Hallmark's MIT-licensed study discipline materially informed the explicit design-DNA extraction below; Agentit keeps its own research/orchestration model and does not vendor Hallmark wholesale.

For premium/Studio public web work, also read references/premium-web-production.md. That file distills the useful production workflow from the bookmarked “$10k website” / cinematic-web articles; quoted price claims are deliberately not treated as evidence.

When a frontend task needs a missing component, interaction, or motion pattern, use references/component-reference-scouting.md as a JIT discovery map. It keeps the project system as the foundation while letting the agent inspect strong external component references before inventing commodity UI from scratch.

Required by default

Run this pass before art direction/code for:

• greenfield public websites, landings, homepages, portfolios and storefronts;
• total visual redesigns;
• ambitious Polished/Studio public visual work;
• work where originality or current visual context matters.