Live Taste Feedback

The standard Designpowers pipeline catches taste mismatches at critique — after the full build is done. That's expensive. A wrong colour palette discovered after 8 components are built means rebuilding all 8. This skill interrupts the build at strategic moments to show intermediate output and ask: "Is this heading in the right direction?"

When to Use

• During design-builder execution, at natural visual checkpoints
• When the build involves subjective aesthetic decisions (colour, typography, spacing, tone)
• When this project's taste direction (design-taste) is ambiguous on the decision at hand
• When the project is new and there's little explicit direction yet for this decision
• When the design-lead's direction was based on interpretation, not explicit user instruction

Do Not Use When

• The user is in auto mode and hasn't opted into taste checks
• The build is purely structural (data models, API integration, routing)
• This project's design-taste direction already settles this decision clearly
• The user has explicitly said "just build it, I'll review at the end"