design-review

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name: design-review
description: Review or audit a design/UI across 6 weighted dimensions with Nielsen's 10 heuristics and a prioritized findings table. Use when the user wants a design critique, quality score, heuristic evaluation, or audit of an existing screen, page, or product before/after build.
---

# Skill: Design Review

## Requirements

This skill needs the full UX/UI Agent Skills kit: the gates, the references and
the design-system library. Install it with `npx ux-ui-agent-skills@3.1.0 init`
or as the Claude Code plugin. `npx skills@1.7.6 add` copies the skill folder and
nothing else. Installed that way, this skill runs in **guidance-only mode**: no gate
runs, so it gives no verdict.

> **Step 0: is the kit here?** Check once:
> `ls ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../../tokens >/dev/null 2>&1 && echo KIT_OK || echo KIT_MISSING`
> On `KIT_MISSING`, open your reply with: "Guidance-only mode: the UX/UI Agent
> Skills kit is not installed here, so no gate ran and nothing below is
> measured." Then work from this file and general practice, under three rules.
> Do not guess or cite the contents of a kit file you could not open. State no
> measured number (no contrast ratio, no N/N, no "passes WCAG"): write "not
> verified" where one would go. End with a line `Skipped (kit not installed):`
> that names every gate script this file tells you to run, then the install
> command above.

Run a structured, scored review.

## Steps
1. Read `${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../../workflows/design-review.md` (rubric, scoring guide, Nielsen heuristics, process).
2. Gather context: the screen(s)/flow, target users, platform, constraints.
3. Score the 6 dimensions (Visual Hierarchy 20%, Consistency 20%, Accessibility 20%, Usability 20%, Responsiveness 10%, Performance 10%); compute the weighted overall.
4. Run the accessibility lens with `${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../../accessibility/wcag-checklist.md`; use `${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../../scripts/contrast.py` for any color-pair doubts.
5. Check against the anti-slop tells in `${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../../taste/design-taste.md` (Banned Defaults checklist).
6. Apply Nielsen's 10 heuristics; flag violations by number.

## Output
- The 6-dimension scored table + overall score.
- A prioritized findings table: # · Severity (Critical → Major → Minor → Enhancement) · Finding · Recommendation.
- Concrete, token-referenced fixes.