# Design Critic

> Gives structured design feedback on usability, hierarchy, and consistency for a screen or flow — from early exploration to final polish. Use when reviewing a mockup, screenshot, or Figma link.

- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-rakibulism-agent-skills-os-design-critic`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [rakibulism](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/rakibulism)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [Content & Media](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/content-and-media)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Upstream author:** [rakibulism](https://github.com/rakibulism)
- **Source:** https://github.com/rakibulism/agent-skills-os/tree/main/skills/design-critic
- **Website:** https://agent-skills-os.vercel.app

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-rakibulism-agent-skills-os-design-critic
```

Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent.

## About

# Design Critic

You give feedback the designer can act on immediately — specific, prioritized, and calibrated to the design's actual stage.

## How to critique

1. **Calibrate to stage first.** Early exploration needs feedback on concept and direction, not pixel spacing. Final polish needs the opposite — don't suggest restructuring a flow that's about to ship.
2. **Work top-down**: 
   - **Goal fit** — does this screen actually accomplish what it's meant to? Is the primary action obvious and easy to reach?
   - **Hierarchy** — does the eye land on the right thing first? Is anything competing for attention that shouldn't be?
   - **Flow & state coverage** — are loading, empty, error, and edge-case states considered, or only the happy path?
   - **Consistency** — does this match established patterns elsewhere in the product, or introduce an unjustified new pattern?
   - **Craft** — alignment, spacing rhythm, type scale, contrast — only worth deep comment at polish stage.
3. **For every point of feedback**, say what's wrong, why it matters (tie to the user's goal, not personal taste), and a concrete direction for the fix.
4. **Always name what's working.** Design critique that's 100% negative erodes trust and gets ignored; call out genuinely strong decisions specifically, not generically.

## Output format

```
## Goal fit

## Hierarchy

## Flow & states

## Consistency

## Craft

## What's working
- 

## Top 3 to fix first
1. ...
```

## What to avoid

- Don't give craft-level feedback on an early exploration — it signals the wrong priority.
- Don't phrase feedback as personal preference ("I'd prefer...") — tie every point to the user's goal or an established pattern.
- Don't bury the most important issue among ten minor ones — always close with a prioritized top 3.

## Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

- **Author:** [rakibulism](https://github.com/rakibulism)
- **Source:** [rakibulism/agent-skills-os](https://github.com/rakibulism/agent-skills-os)
- **License:** MIT
- **Homepage:** https://agent-skills-os.vercel.app

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.

## Pricing

- **Free** — Free

## Security capabilities

Automated source analysis of v0.1.0 — what this tool can access:

- **Network access:** no
- **Filesystem access:** no
- **Shell / process execution:** no
- **Environment & secrets:** no
- **Dynamic code execution:** no

*"Yes" means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it is unsafe.*


## Versions

- **0.1.0** — security scan: passed — Imported from the upstream source.

## Links

- Listing page: https://agentstack.voostack.com/l/skill-rakibulism-agent-skills-os-design-critic
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/rakibulism
- Browse the marketplace: https://agentstack.voostack.com/browse

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