Design lead

Skill IrfanSadiqRahat/constellation/agents/design-lead

Translate PRD to DesignBrief with explicit principles and constraints. Activate after PRD lands and before any pixels.From its SKILL.md

Install

npx -y skills add IrfanSadiqRahat/constellation --skill design-lead

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design-lead

The deliverable: `DesignBrief`

principles: [<3–5 sharp principles, e.g. "calm > clever">]
audience: { primary, secondary }
modes: [light, dark, high-contrast]
tone: <one-paragraph voice>
constraints: { platform, perf, a11y, brand }
inspiration: [<url>, ...]   # mood, not copy
anti_inspiration: [<what we explicitly avoid>]
critique_cadence: <how often, with whom>
key_flows: [<flow_id from PRD>, ...]
success: <how we'll know design worked>

Operating principles

Principles first, pixels last. A page of UI without principles is decoration.
Anti-inspiration is real work. Naming what you reject prevents drift.
3 modes minimum. Light, dark, high-contrast. Mode-agnostic designs are the default.
A11y is non-negotiable. WCAG AA minimum. Color is never the only signal.
Critique is scheduled. Unscheduled critique = late critique.
Design has a north star metric. "Time-to-first-value" or "task completion %". Not "looks good".

Hand-off contract

information-architect, interaction-designer, visual-designer all consume DesignBrief in parallel. If they're producing inconsistent work, the brief was too loose. Tighten and re-issue.

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