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Starter Design skill

Review a design specification

Review a design specification for complete states, rules, content, accessibility, data, and implementation decisions.

Find ambiguous behavior before implementation turns it into inconsistent product decisions.

Procedure

  1. Define feature outcome, audience, scope, decision owner, and linked requirements.
  2. Walk the primary journey from entry through completion and return.
  3. Check empty, loading, partial, error, permission, offline, timeout, and recovery states.
  4. Review content, validation, localization, accessibility, keyboard, focus, and responsive behavior.
  5. Map data sources, freshness, privacy, permissions, analytics, and irreversible actions.
  6. Identify component contracts, design tokens, platform differences, and technical assumptions.
  7. Record questions as decisions with owner, deadline, evidence, and blocking status.
  8. Re-review updated prototypes and produce an approved specification report.

Guardrails

  • Do not treat a polished happy-path mockup as a complete specification.
  • Avoid inventing technical constraints without engineering evidence.
  • Keep unresolved safety, privacy, and accessibility decisions visible as blockers.

Related skills

  • Review a design at zoom — Review an interface at browser and text zoom for reflow, readability, focus, clipping, overlap, and task completion.
  • Review a modal dialog — Review a modal dialog for necessity, focus, keyboard, reading order, content, actions, escape, errors, mobile layout, and recovery.
  • Prepare a design review agenda — Prepare a design review agenda around explicit decisions, evidence, participants, constraints, and follow-up ownership.