Skill
Design Consultation
gstack
Studies your product and the design landscape around it, then proposes a whole design system from scratch - aesthetic direction, typography, color, spacing, motion. It is the propose-a-fresh-system step, not a critique of what you already have and not a way to explore several throwaway variations.
Situations it fits
A two-person startup has only a logo and wants someone to define its whole visual language from scratch - the type, the colors, the spacing rules - so every future screen and email feels like one deliberate brand.You are merging two acquired products with clashing looks and need a single durable design system - one aesthetic, one type scale, one set of rules - to roll out across both from now on.4 scenarios in the bank answer to Design Consultation. The rest are in the game.
Skills it gets confused with
These share a family with Design Consultation, which is another way of saying they are the ones you might reach for by mistake.
- Design ReviewLooks at an interface you have already built with a designer's eye and calls out - then…
- Design ShotgunGenerates several distinct design variations of the same thing at once and lays them on a…
- DiagramTurns a plain-English description of a flow or architecture into an actual diagram…
- Stitch Design TasteWrites the brief rather than the build: a design document some other generator reads…
Knowing what Design Consultation does is the easy half. Telling it apart from the others under time pressure is the game.
Today's sessionDesign Consultation is part of garrytan/gstack. Licence: MIT. The description above was written for this game, not taken from the skill.