45ck field-study-planner
Purpose
Plan contextual or field-based observation to understand real-world workflows, interruptions, environments, and constraints.
Trigger this skill when
- You need to understand users, tasks, or interaction problems before building or changing an interface.
- A team is making UX claims without enough structure, evidence, or critique.
- Prototype, flow, or usability work needs a repeatable checklist rather than ad hoc opinions.
Expected inputs
- interface or workflow under review
- target users or user assumptions
- task context
- constraints or evidence already available
Deliverables
- structured findings
- open questions
- recommended artifact or next step
- handoff recommendation
Operating procedure
- Clarify the user, task, and design question this skill is meant to answer.
- Separate observed facts, inferred assumptions, and speculative hypotheses.
- Produce concrete findings tied to user goals and task completion.
- Surface uncertainty explicitly instead of masking it with confident UX language.
- Recommend the next most useful research, design, or evaluation step.
Quality gates
- Findings are tied to a user goal or task, not generic taste.
- Assumptions are marked as assumptions.
- Recommendations are concrete enough to act on.
- Accessibility, clarity, and cognitive load are not ignored when relevant.
Handoff targets
- persona-synthesizer
- task-analysis-writer
- usability-test-planner
Output style
- Be concrete and structured.
- Prefer task-based critique over aesthetic vagueness.
- Separate evidence, inference, and recommendation.
- Use severity or priority when useful.
Failure modes to avoid
- Do not confuse stakeholder preference with user evidence.
- Do not write generic UX advice detached from the scenario.
- Do not assume a persona is real evidence if it is only hypothesized.
- Do not recommend high-fidelity work when the underlying problem is still unclear.
Minimum output skeleton
## Summary
## Findings
## Evidence vs assumptions
## Open questions
## Recommended next skill