- 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 [email protected] init
or as the Claude Code plugin. npx [email protected] 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_MISSINGOnKIT_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 lineSkipped (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
- Read
${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../../workflows/design-review.md(rubric, scoring guide, Nielsen heuristics, process). - Gather context: the screen(s)/flow, target users, platform, constraints.
- Score the 6 dimensions (Visual Hierarchy 20%, Consistency 20%, Accessibility 20%, Usability 20%, Responsiveness 10%, Performance 10%); compute the weighted overall.
- Run the accessibility lens with
${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../../accessibility/wcag-checklist.md; use${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../../scripts/contrast.pyfor any color-pair doubts. - Check against the anti-slop tells in
${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../../taste/design-taste.md(Banned Defaults checklist). - 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.