ui-ux-design-audit

Design

Audit multi-surface UI/UX in the personal-assistant Obsidian plugin with the current PA framework, real interface evidence, structured scoring, adversarial finding verification, and product-decision routing. Use for design retrospectives, visual quality baselines, cross-surface consistency audits, accessibility/mobile evaluations, or requests such as "帮我看看设计" and "audit the UI". Default to audit-only; implement findings only when explicitly requested, and require separate authorization for commit or archive actions. For review of a current code diff or PR, use `personal-assistant-review` instead.

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UI/UX Design Audit

Core Boundaries

Default to audit-only:

Inspect, observe, score, verify, and report findings.
Do not edit runtime/product code unless the user explicitly asks to fix the verified findings.
Create or update a durable audit artifact only when the user asks for one; otherwise report in chat.
Do not commit or archive artifacts without separate explicit authorization.

Use this skill for cross-surface design quality. Route a current diff/PR review to personal-assistant-review, even when the diff is UI-heavy.

Read:

AGENTS.md
docs/product/pa-product-north-star.md
docs/product/pa-low-burden-review-product-principles.md
docs/development/workflows/pa-ui-ux-review-framework.md
The source files and tests for the audited surfaces

Reuse the current PA framework before inventing a new instrument. Treat its four Layer A dimensions—Design Coherence, Visual Polish, Interaction Quality, and Content Clarity—as a PA adaptation, not a verbatim external framework. Research external frameworks only when the current instrument needs revision; use authoritative sources and preserve citations for adapted claims.

Evidence Standard

Separate evidence into three lanes:

Lane	Can prove	Cannot prove alone
Source and tests	State, lifecycle, copy, accessibility markup, CSS intent, product contract	Rendered visual quality or interaction feel
Runtime/DOM	Mounting, state transitions, computed structure, fresh console behavior	Visual polish or real user interaction by itself
Visible UI	Layout, hierarchy, contrast, clipping, focus, keyboard/touch flow, perceived burden	Hidden code paths not exercised

Require obsidian-test-vault-smoke at full-ui tier before assigning visual or interaction scores. Capture the visible path, interaction, observed state, and screenshot evidence. If the app cannot be observed, mark those dimensions UNSCORED or BLOCKED; do not infer a score from source code.

Use obsidian-ios-real-device-smoke for claims about real iOS touch behavior. Do not generalize desktop evidence to mobile.

Workflow

1. Bound the Audit

Confirm the requested surfaces, platforms, themes, and key user journeys.
Inventory views, panels, modals, overlays, commands, settings, and navigation transitions in scope.
Select only the framework dimensions relevant to the request.
Define the evidence needed for every score before auditing.

2. Observe and Score

Deploy and observe the real test-vault UI through obsidian-test-vault-smoke when visual or interaction scoring is requested.
Trace each visible issue to source, CSS, state, or product-contract evidence.
Score with the current PA framework. Use short evidence-backed rationales; do not manufacture numerical precision.
Check the North Star explicitly:
- capture friction
- right-time return
- quietness and ignorable states
- source-backed trust
- reversible maintenance and earned action
- net review burden

For layered surfaces, use Mermaid for topology or flow diagrams. Use a Markdown table for the score heatmap.

3. Fan Out Broad Audits

If multi-agent tools are available and the audit is broad or the user asks for an agent team, partition surfaces across independent agents. Give every agent the same framework and different surfaces. If subagents are unavailable, run the same partitions locally.

Require this schema from each lane:

## Surface: <name>

### Evidence
- visible path and screenshot
- source/test anchors

### Scores
| Dimension | Score or UNSCORED | Evidence |
| --- | --- | --- |

### Findings
| Finding | Severity | Trigger | Suggested direction |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |

Add one cross-surface pass for terminology, design tokens, navigation, progressive disclosure, accessibility, and desktop/mobile consistency.

4. Verify Findings

Verify every P0/P1/P2 finding against the actual source and the relevant visible flow before presenting it as confirmed.

Classify each finding:

CONFIRMED: the trigger and impact match the evidence
PARTIALLY CONFIRMED: the issue exists but scope or severity changes
FALSE POSITIVE: current source or observed behavior contradicts it
BLOCKED: required runtime/device evidence is unavailable

Recalibrate severity after verification. Do not force findings per surface or dimension.

5. Route Decisions and Fixes

End an audit-only request after verified findings, decisions, and validation gaps.

If the user explicitly asks to fix findings:

Use personal-assistant-review-followup to classify and confirm the fix set.
Ask before changing product semantics, visible capability, confirmation burden, information architecture, or review cadence.
Route structural changes to sdd-lifecycle; do not reproduce the refactor workflow here.
Implement only the approved fix set.
Use personal-assistant-review on the resulting diff.
Re-run the relevant full-ui flow and record before/after evidence.

Implementation authorization does not authorize commit, push, archive, or release actions.

Artifacts

Reuse docs/development/workflows/pa-ui-ux-review-framework.md; do not create a duplicate framework.
Follow docs/development/documentation-workflow.md when the user requests a durable audit report.
Keep an active audit package under docs/development/active/<audit>/ only while work is active.
Add unresolved follow-up to docs/backlog.md only when requested and avoid copying the full audit into the backlog.
Archive a completed report only when the user explicitly asks.

Output

Lead with verified findings ordered by severity. Include:

surface and user-visible trigger
score or UNSCORED, with evidence
source/test and visible-UI anchors
confirmation status and suggested direction
validation completed, blocked, and not run
decisions required before any fix

If there are no actionable findings, say ✅ OK and list only material evidence gaps.

Related Skills

personal-assistant-review: current diff/PR review
personal-assistant-review-followup: finding triage and approved fixes
sdd-lifecycle: structural design and implementation lifecycle
obsidian-test-vault-smoke: local full-UI evidence
obsidian-ios-real-device-smoke: iOS real-device evidence