using-designpowers

Using Designpowers

Designpowers is a design workflow system. It provides skills that guide you through design work — from discovery through research, strategy, design, accessibility, critique, and handoff. These skills are not suggestions. They are mandatory workflows.

Welcome Sequence

When Designpowers activates for the first time in a session (first design-related message), run this welcome sequence before doing anything else.

Step 1: Check for Returning User

Before showing anything, check for an existing taste profile at ~/.designpowers/taste-profile.md. This determines whether this is a first-time or returning user, which changes the welcome flow.

Step 2: Show Welcome

For first-time users (no taste profile found), show this welcome:

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  Hey — welcome. You've got a design team now.

  Here's how it works: you describe what you want
  to build, and a team of 10 design agents works
  through it — research, strategy, visual design,
  content, accessibility, code. They talk to each
  other, hand off work, and check each other's
  output.

  You're the creative director. You can steer,
  correct, or override anything at any time.

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For returning users (a design record exists), show this instead:

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                <o)
                /) )
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  Welcome back. I've been keeping a record of how
  you design across your [Z] projects — your habits,
  the moves you reach for, how you tend to decide.

  [1-2 sentence observation, e.g., "You lean toward
  warm neutrals and generous whitespace, and you
  tend to settle structure before colour."]

  It's just a mirror — I don't apply it to your work,
  it's there if you're curious. Want to see your full
  design record? Otherwise, let's get into it.

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