designer-skills

User research skills for designers: personas, empathy maps, journey maps, interview scripts, usability testing, and card sorting.

Build, document, and maintain scalable design systems — from tokens and components to accessibility and theming.

Shape product direction through competitive analysis, design principles, experience mapping, and strategic alignment.

Craft polished user interfaces with layout grids, color systems, typography scales, responsive patterns, and visual hierarchy.

Design meaningful interactions with micro-animations, state machines, gestures, error handling, and feedback patterns.

Plan and execute design validation through prototyping strategies, usability testing, heuristic evaluation, and A/B experiments.

Streamline design operations with critique frameworks, handoff specs, sprint planning, review processes, and team workflows.

Essential designer utilities for writing rationale, building presentations, crafting case studies, UX writing, and driving adoption.

Design how humans and AI models communicate — conversation patterns, turn-taking, mixed-initiative flows, and generative UI.

Design guardrails, safety boundaries, value alignment, and ethical constraints into AI products.

Craft AI personality, tone, persona, and behavioral consistency across contexts.

Measure AI output quality, user satisfaction, task success, and design effectiveness.

Design multi-agent systems, handoffs between AI agents, and human-in-the-loop workflows.

Structure prompts as design artefacts — system prompts, templates, chains, and reusable patterns.

Design for how people actually think: cognitive load, plain language, wayfinding, focus, memory, and error recovery.

Design multi-modal interactions that adapt to how people move, perceive, and communicate.

Structure content that works for screen readers, cognitive differences, and diverse literacy levels.

Build user stories, personas, and scenarios that include disability from the start.

Design systems that respect user preferences and adapt to individual needs.

Document, communicate, and maintain accessibility decisions across teams and time.