design-journey-review

design-journey-review is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from NickCrew/Claude-Cortex. It costs 65 tokens per session (2,066 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A review method for assessing both how an interface looks and how it supports a user's workflow over time. It examines colour, typography, spacing, information density, hierarchy, workflow stages, and points of friction.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review data-heavy screens, improve daily-use workflows, assess information structure, and find visual or interaction friction.
Why use it?
It helps reveal interfaces that look inconsistent, waste screen space, or make repeated tasks harder than necessary. It connects visual choices with the user's actual experience.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to review data-heavy screens, improve daily-use workflows, assess information structure, and find visual or interaction friction.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nickcrew/claude-cortex/design-journey-review
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add NickCrew/Claude-Cortex --skill design-journey-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/NickCrew/Claude-Cortex

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 65 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,066 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00065 $0.02066
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.01033
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00413
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00207

Measured 7d ago against content hash 60d442fba104, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

design-journey-review scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 7d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/design-journey-review/SKILL.md · 240 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 240 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Design & Journey Review

Combined review of visual design and user journey. Evaluates whether an interface looks coherent and purposeful (color, type, spacing, density, hierarchy) and whether it serves the user's real workflow across sessions (friction points, emotional curve, golden path optimization, information architecture for daily use).

This skill merges the "how does it serve the user?" axis: visual hierarchy, color/type coherence, density balance, workflow stages, emotional patterns, and daily-use friction.

When to Use

  • Evaluating visual hierarchy and information density for data-dense UIs
  • Reviewing color system coherence (semantic colors, phase colors, theme adaptation)
  • Assessing typography choices and type scale effectiveness
  • Mapping the user's actual workflow and identifying friction
  • Optimizing for daily-driver use cases (expert users, repeated sessions)
  • Evaluating whether design choices earn their viewport space
  • Finding density inversions (low-value content in high-value positions)

Do NOT use for interaction mechanics (state coverage, feedback timing, escape hatches). Use ux-interaction-review for those.

Quick Reference

Task Load reference
Visual system evaluation criteria skills/design-journey-review/references/visual-and-journey-criteria.md

Workflow

Step 1: Identify the Aesthetic Identity

Before evaluating individual elements, name the aesthetic the interface is targeting. Common archetypes:

  • Mission control / operational terminal (dark, data-dense, monospace, status colors)
  • Swiss/minimal (clean, lots of white space, geometric, strict grid)
  • Linear/GitHub (dark panels, subtle borders, pill chips, blue accent)
  • Editorial (large type, serif headings, generous spacing, reading-focused)
  • Dashboard/enterprise (card-based, neutral, data visualization heavy)

If the interface doesn't commit to an identity, that's the first finding.

Step 2: Color System Assessment

Evaluate the color architecture:

Read the full file on GitHub · 240 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 7d ago First seen · 240 lines · 65 tokens per session scan A 60d442fba104

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design-journey-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository NickCrew/Claude-Cortex (39 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 65 tokens to every session and 2,066 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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