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ui-ux-excellence

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Drive UI/UX audits and improvements with structured heuristics, user journeys, and validation gates.

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Source SKILL.md: https://github.com/majiayu000/claude-skill-registry/blob/HEAD/skills/design/ui-ux-excellence-dnyoussef-context-cascade/SKILL.md

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L1 Improvement

  • Recast the UX skill in Prompt Architect style with clear triggers, heuristics, and confidence ceilings.
  • Added structure-first guardrails and validation steps aligned to Skill Forge.
  • Clarified outputs (audit + prioritized fixes) with memory tagging.

STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE

Purpose

Evaluate and improve product UI/UX using heuristic reviews, user flows, accessibility checks, and prioritized fix plans.

Trigger Conditions

  • Positive: UX/UI audit, usability review, accessibility check, design critique, or journey optimization.
  • Negative: branding-only requests (route to design specialists) or backend-only tasks.

Guardrails

  • Maintain structure-first docs (SKILL, README, examples/tests/references).
  • Apply explicit heuristics: clarity, consistency, affordance, feedback, accessibility, performance.
  • Confidence ceilings required; cite evidence (screens, flows, metrics).
  • Memory tagging for audits and recommendations.

Execution Phases

  1. Intent & Context – Identify product area, target users, platforms, and success metrics.
  2. Heuristic Review – Assess clarity, consistency, affordance, feedback, and accessibility; capture screenshots/notes.
  3. Journey Analysis – Map critical flows; note friction points, latency, and error states.
  4. Prioritized Plan – Rank issues by severity/impact/effort; propose design/UX changes.
  5. Validation – Prototype or simulate fixes when possible; ensure accessibility (WCAG) and responsiveness.
  6. Delivery – Provide findings, recommended changes, and confidence ceiling with memory keys.

Output Format

  • Audit summary, user flows assessed, key issues with evidence, and prioritized fixes.
  • Accessibility/performance notes and suggested metrics to track.
  • Confidence: X.XX (ceiling: TYPE Y.YY); memory namespace recorded.

Validation Checklist

  • Scope and personas defined; platforms noted.
  • Heuristics applied with evidence; accessibility checked.
  • Prioritized backlog includes impact/effort/owner.
  • Confidence ceiling declared; memory tagged.

Integration

  • Memory MCP: skills/tooling/ui-ux-excellence/{project}/{timestamp} for audits and artifacts.
  • Hooks: follow Skill Forge latency bounds; integrate with screenshot tooling when available.

Confidence: 0.70 (ceiling: inference 0.70) – SOP aligned to Prompt Architect clarity and Skill Forge guardrails.