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Design Review

gstack

Looks at an interface you have already built with a designer's eye and calls out - then fixes - the specific flaws: inconsistent spacing, weak hierarchy, generic AI-slop styling, sluggish interactions. It critiques and repairs existing work, rather than proposing a new system or generating alternatives to choose between.

Situations it fits

The checkout screen looks like three different people designed it while blindfolded: one button is huge, another invisible; the 'Pay' button winks on hover; there's no way to tell which step comes next. We need an expert to audit what's already created and fix the chaos before the testers see it.
Design Review. Design-review (gstack) wins because it is built to audit a finished interface and surgically correct its concrete defects - mismatched sizes, unclear rankings, sluggish or missing transitions, and generic styling - without throwing away everything. The genuinely tempting trap is design-consultation (gstack), which sounds like a general 'design help' option; however, that skill is for creating an entirely fresh system from nothing, not for patching the broken parts of something you already have.
Our recently shipped analytics dashboard arrived with margins that jump around by a dozen pixels on press, a 'Buy Now' button that takes three seconds to answer a click and then crumbles like a stale cookie, and every label fighting for the top spot. Before our onboarding demo, we need someone to spot the rot and patch it in place.
Design Review. design-review-gstack is the right fit because it audits an interface you have already shipped and pinpoints exactly where the layout has drifted, interactions are unresponsive, and visual noise drowns out the hierarchy, then repairs those flaws in place. The tempting design-consultation-gstack is a trap because it would treat the dashboard as a blank canvas needing a full fresh system, wasting effort on aesthetics when the real need is a surgical critique and quick fixes to an existing interface that is already functional but badly executed.

3 scenarios in the bank answer to Design Review. The rest are in the game.

Skills it gets confused with

These share a family with Design Review, which is another way of saying they are the ones you might reach for by mistake.

Knowing what Design Review does is the easy half. Telling it apart from the others under time pressure is the game.

Today's session

Design Review is part of garrytan/gstack. Licence: MIT. The description above was written for this game, not taken from the skill.