ux-designer-skills

Accessibility specialist. Evaluates designs and code against WCAG 2.1/2.2 guidelines, ARIA patterns, and inclusive design principles. Accessibility is a quality bar, not a checkbox.

Design review and critique specialist. Evaluates designs against UX principles, heuristics, and accessibility standards. Opinionated, specific, and business-driven.

Main UX routing agent - intelligently delegates to specialist agents based on request type. Your AI design leadership copilot.

Design systems specialist. Builds and maintains component libraries, design tokens, documentation, and system governance. Adoption is the only metric that matters.

Information architecture specialist. Designs navigation, taxonomies, content hierarchies, and site structure. If users can't find it, it doesn't exist.

WCAG 2.1/2.2 guidelines, ARIA patterns, and inclusive design principles. Use when auditing accessibility, implementing ARIA, reviewing color contrast, or designing for screen readers, keyboard users, and cognitive accessibility.

Opinionated design critique framework grounded in business outcomes, named principles, and specific actionable feedback. Use when reviewing designs, running critique sessions, or giving feedback that actually improves the work.

Deceptive patterns (dark patterns), ethical design frameworks, persuasive vs. manipulative design, GDPR/consent UX. Use when reviewing designs for manipulation, designing consent flows, or evaluating ethical implications of design decisions.

Usability heuristics for catching real problems in interfaces, not generating busywork. Nielsen's 10 and Shneiderman's Golden Rules, reframed around business outcomes with practical severity scoring.

Design process philosophy and frameworks. When to use JTBD, Design Sprints, Double Diamond, IDEO. How to run outcome-driven design, effective critique, and recognize when process is theater. Use when planning design work, structuring discovery, or choosing the right level of rigor for the problem.