Design skills for AI agents
Twenty-one bounded methods for framing, making, testing, and learning. Each page shows what the skill changes, what it returns, and where human judgment remains.
Frame
Setup
Make the project context, constraints, tools, and review surfaces explicit before an agent promises design work.
Jobs to be Done
Find the progress a person is trying to make, the forces around the switch, and the language they already use.
Brand kit
Explore a visual identity, compare real directions, and turn the chosen one into a usable brand contract.
Make
Prototype
Build the cheapest lookable or clickable artifact that can answer one live product question.
Narrative Scrollytelling
Turn an ordered method, argument, or timeline into a scroll story that remains a complete readable document.
UX writing
Write interface language from the product job, evidence, anxiety, and vocabulary instead of a generic tone prompt.
Semantic Micro-interactions
Define bounded feedback from a real state transition without making motion or sound carry the meaning.
Brand illustration
Generate an image family under an existing brand contract instead of decorating the product from outside.
Design tokens
Turn visual judgment into validated, portable rules for color, type, spacing, imagery, and contrast.
Typography
Apply safe English and Russian microtypography while keeping mechanical corrections separate from authorial choices.
Type specimen
Compare typefaces in the product's real words, figures, density, weights, symbols, and languages before tokenizing one.
Design frameworks
Fit an accepted interface to the components, tokens, and constraints a real project already provides.
Layout rules
Prevent structural interface defects across hierarchy, density, touch, contrast, state, URLs, themes, and small screens.
Sound effects
Create a small, coherent, opt-in sound palette for interface moments that already have clear visual meaning.
Test
Respondent panel
Collect independent first reactions from context-isolated synthetic respondents and look for convergent misreadings.
Walkthrough
Attempt one real job step by step and record where intent, control, feedback, or recovery breaks.
Persona review
Let named stakeholder perspectives review the same artifact independently before it enters a costly conversation.
Nielsen heuristics
Run a formal usability inspection with a consistent rubric, severity, and evidence locator for every finding.
Review
Consolidate product review domains into one evidence-led verdict without duplicating root causes or pretending missing coverage.