UI Design Audit

Purpose

Design consistency degrades incrementally — one slightly-off spacing here, a non-standard loading state there. This skill performs a structured sweep of the UI codebase to surface these inconsistencies before they compound into a fragmented user experience.

The output is a prioritized findings report written in PRD format at plans/ui-audit-<date>/prd.md, so it enters the build pipeline directly at design-to-tasks — no separate idea-to-prd pass is needed; the audit is the PRD.

This is one of the suite's three audit skills — with security-review (security posture) and performance-review (speed) — sharing one contract: standalone, whole-system, severity-tiered, PRD-emitting. See the lifecycle for how audits feed the pipeline.

Scope

A UI design audit examines seven dimensions. Work through each in order, or scope the audit to specific dimensions if the user specifies (e.g., "just loading states" or "just spacing and sizing").

The seven dimensions are defined in references/audit-checklist.md: