Written critique
Skill Dragoon0x/taste-skills/skills/articulation/written-critique
Agent skills for design taste and visual judgment. Hierarchy, typography, color, spacing, interaction quality, and the invisible decisions that separate good design from great design
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One thing to look at
- 2 stars2 stars. Stars are a popularity signal and not a quality one, but at this level it is likely that nobody has read this closely except its author, and you would be relying on your own review.
What its author says it does
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Write a structured design review that someone can act on without follow-up questions. Use when giving async design feedback, writing portfolio case studies, or documenting design decisions.
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Written Critique
Write feedback someone can act on without asking you to clarify.
How to use
/written-critiqueApply structured critique format to design reviews in this conversation.
Constraints
Critique Structure
- Intent (2-3 sentences): What the design is trying to do. Not what it does. What experience it's trying to create.
- What works (2-3 specific decisions): Each with the principle behind it.
- What doesn't (1-2 specific decisions): Each with reasoning and the impact on the user.
- One change (1 recommendation): The single highest-impact change, framed as a direction not a prescription.
Writing Rules
- MUST be specific enough that the designer can act without a follow-up conversation
- MUST separate craft feedback (alignment, consistency) from taste feedback (should this exist at all?)
- MUST reference observable decisions, not feelings
- SHOULD be under 300 words. Concise feedback gets read. Novels don't.
- NEVER rewrite the design in the feedback. Diagnose, don't prescribe.
Anti-Patterns
- Writing a wall of text with no structure
- Mixing praise and criticism in the same sentence (pick a lane per observation)
- Giving feedback on every detail equally (prioritize what matters most)
- Being so diplomatic the feedback has no edge