Frames product design problems before solutions exist. Synthesizes research, sizes opportunities, defines hypotheses, scopes projects, and maps customer journeys. Use this skill for new project kickoffs, ambiguous business asks, translating research into briefs, strategic framing sessions, opportunity assessments…
Rethinks experiences for different platforms and contexts — not just resizing, but reconceiving. Part of the Intent design strategy system. When an experience moves from desktop to mobile, web to TV, consumer app to kiosk, or visual interface to voice, the interaction model, information priority, and user context all…
Design the structural anatomy of screens at wireframe fidelity — what goes where and why, before anyone argues about how it looks. Part of the Intent design strategy system. Produces lo-fi idea boards for divergent exploration, complete interactive grayscale wireframes with real labels and real hierarchy, and…
Strategy and research specialist. Use when a design problem is unclear, fuzzy, or potentially misframed — before any flows, copy, or specs are produced. Frames problems against five foundational questions (problem validation, audience, solution fit, feature validation, competitive landscape), synthesizes existing…
Entry point for Intent UX design work. Use at the start of any design engagement — or anytime the team needs reorientation — to establish project context (users, product, constraints, ethical stance, success criteria), hold the six core UX principles in conversation, flag manipulative patterns against the Intent…
Design-to-engineering handoff specialist. Use when a design is decided and needs to be documented precisely enough to implement — detailed specs per screen (behavior, layout, copy, interaction logic, states, accessibility), copy/variant matrices, edge case documentation, asset inventories, stakeholder presentations…
Brainstorming partner for sitting with a problem before solving it. Not a phase — a cognitive mode any other agent can enter when the problem needs more exploration before the next move. Runs a strict three-phase protocol (problem immersion, associative expansion, synthesis only when invited) with cross-domain…
Quality, resilience, and accessibility specialist — the honest evaluator. Use to systematically assess an existing design against Nielsen's 10 heuristics, the Intent anti-pattern catalog, and WCAG 2.2; to stress-test against edge cases, error recovery, empty states, loading states, offline behavior, and real-world…
Experience designer. Use once the problem is framed and the experience itself needs designing — flows, information architecture, screen structure, or interface copy. Designs end-to-end user journeys (signup, onboarding, checkout, search, error recovery, settings, dashboards), structures navigation and taxonomy, and…
Design the words in a product — labels, instructions, errors, confirmations, empty states, onboarding copy, tooltips, voice and tone frameworks, and content models. UX writing and content strategy as a deep discipline. Trigger when writing or reviewing UI copy, error messages, empty states, onboarding text, CTAs…
Map, analyze, and redesign the systems behind product experiences. Part of the Intent design strategy system. Creates service blueprints, ecosystem maps, process architecture, and dependency diagrams. Understands how services, teams, tools, and data flows connect to produce (or fail to produce) user outcomes. Proposes…
Structured UX evaluation that produces quantitative assessments, identifies specific issues, and routes to the right Intent skill for resolution. Part of the Intent design strategy system. Runs heuristic evaluations, cognitive walkthroughs, anti-pattern detection, and task success analysis. Scores, categorizes, and…
Harden designs for real-world use by systematically identifying and designing for every condition outside the happy path. Part of the Intent design strategy system. Covers state inventories, error recovery, empty states, loading patterns, first-run experiences, stress testing, internationalization readiness, and…
Design for everyone by treating accessibility as a first-class design discipline, not a compliance checklist. Part of the Intent design strategy system. Covers WCAG 2.2 for designers, screen reader experience design, keyboard navigation, cognitive accessibility, motor accessibility, inclusive design beyond compliance…
The entry point for Intent, a UX and design strategy system. Sets project context, routes to specialized skills, and loads foundational UX knowledge. Activate when starting any UX or product design work, setting project context, routing to other skills, evaluating an existing product's UX, or when the user asks about…
Guide and conduct user research — from planning through synthesis. Interview scripts, survey design, usability test plans, diary studies, contextual inquiry. Plus synthesis: affinity mapping, thematic coding, insight extraction. Trigger when: planning user research, writing interview guides, designing usability tests…
Adapts experiences across cultures and languages — not just translation, but cultural reconception. Part of the Intent design strategy system. When a product enters a new market, everything is in play: information density, navigation patterns, color meaning, icon comprehension, date formats, trust signals, payment…
Defines and tracks UX success through metrics, measurement frameworks, and experimentation. Part of the Intent design strategy system. Connects design decisions to observable evidence — did the thing we built actually help? Guards against measurement becoming manipulation. Trigger when: defining success metrics…
Structure information so people can find what they need, understand where they are, and navigate confidently. Covers navigation pattern design, taxonomy, labeling systems, search and browse strategy, wayfinding, and IA research methods. Trigger when designing navigation structures, categorization schemes, site maps…
A cross-cutting cognitive mode for sitting with design problems before rushing to solve them. Part of the Intent design strategy system. Activates expansive brainstorming: hyperassociativity, beginner's mind, cross-domain pattern recognition, and suppression of premature idea-dismissal. Works alongside every Intent…
Discipline for giving design work narrative structure that makes people care. Provides four canonical patterns — protagonist-arc, choreography, situation/complication/resolution, what-is/what-could-be — each with a goal, shape, and named pathology. Use when design work needs narrative structure, when stakeholders need…