ux-designer_skill

Overview

This skill provides senior-level UX design assistance for research, wireframing, prototyping, and design strategy. It helps teams create user-centered, accessible, and efficient experiences with practical templates and prioritized guidance. Use it to validate assumptions, structure flows, and produce clear deliverables that developers and stakeholders can act on.

How this skill works

I inspect user goals, flows, and existing interfaces to identify usability and accessibility gaps, then recommend concrete fixes prioritized by impact. I produce persona templates, user flow outlines, wireframe guidance, and test plans, plus review outputs that call out issues, accessibility concerns, and quick wins. Deliverables are focused on measurable outcomes like task success, time on task, and reduced error rates.

When to use it

• Planning or conducting user research and defining personas
• Creating low-to-high fidelity wireframes or interactive prototypes
• Designing and validating user flows, task flows, and information architecture
• Writing UX microcopy and interface text for clarity and conversion
• Reviewing designs for usability, accessibility (WCAG), and handoff readiness

Best practices

• Prioritize user needs first, then accessibility, usability, visual hierarchy, and consistency
• Validate assumptions with 5–8 user interviews or lightweight usability tests before major design work
• Sketch multiple concepts; progress from low → mid → high fidelity iteratively
• Keep one primary action per screen and surface progress indicators for multi-step flows
• Document states, edge cases, and ARIA/semantic requirements for smooth developer handoff

Example use cases

• Review a SaaS onboarding flow and recommend changes to reduce drop-off and speed setup
• Generate a persona and user-journey map to focus feature prioritization
• Create a template and checklist for accessible form design and error messaging
• Outline an interactive prototype and a usability test plan with success metrics
• Perform a design review that lists usability issues, accessibility fixes, and improvement opportunities