What problem does it solve? When a UI's visual direction is open — a new screen, a restyle, or a mood shift — prescribing one answer prematurely leads to weak, convergent designs. This Skill replaces single-answer taste with a repeatable search procedure: generate genuinely different directions, judge them against explicit criteria, and synthesize the strongest result. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Parallel direction generation: Produces 3–5 directions, each committed to a different organizing idea (dense-utilitarian, airy-editorial, bold-expressive), with structured design tokens (palette hexes, radius, spacing, density). - Artifact-based judging: Renders each direction as a standalone HTML page, screenshots it with headless Chrome, and gates it against WCAG AA contrast before scoring — judges rate the artifact, not the prose. - Synthesis with verification: Takes the highest-scoring direction as a base, grafts the best moves from runners-up, and cross-checks contrast and spacing scale before handoff. - Use Case: Given a brief like "design a billing dashboard for a creative agency," run the workflow to get four rendered, contrast-gated directions with per-criterion scores and a final synthesized recommendation. ## Quick Start Use design-explore to generate four distinct visual directions for a new analytics dashboard, judge them against audience fit and clarity, and recommend one.
