Design Audit Panel

Design Audit Panel

Audit the provided design through selected expert perspectives, then combine the findings into one prioritized deliverable.

Read references/personas.md before writing a report. Use only the persona blocks selected for the audit and preserve each persona's five-section sequence.

This is an evaluative skill. Review supplied evidence against the selected lens; do not generate a redesign or fill missing evidence with plausible assumptions.

Perspectives

Finding contract

Use this shape for every issue, warning, opportunity, and top priority:

Severity: Critical | Major | Minor
Evidence: Observed | Inferred | To verify
Affected area: [screen, step, component, or requirement]
Finding: [specific problem and its mechanism]
Impact: [user, business, accessibility, or delivery consequence]
Fix: [concrete change]
Validation: [test, question, or evidence needed]

Do not force a field to sound certain. Use To verify when the supplied material cannot support a confirmed finding, and omit an impact category that does not apply.

Language

• Write the complete deliverable in the language used by the user unless they explicitly request another language.
• Keep product names, technical terms, and standards in their established form when translation would reduce clarity.
• For Arabic output, use clear Modern Standard Arabic and translate report headings consistently while preserving the required section order and meaning.
• Do not ask the user to choose a language when their request already makes it clear.

Workflow

1. Select the perspectives

Use the perspectives named by the user. If none are named:

• For a general UI or flow review, use the Frustrated User, Accessibility Expert, and UI/UX Expert as the default core panel.
• For a business, growth, engineering, or competitive request, select the perspectives that directly match the stated goal.
• Run all seven only when the user requests a comprehensive review or explicitly asks for every perspective.

State the selected perspectives in one short line. Ask a selection question only when two plausible panels would produce materially different results and the user's goal does not resolve the choice.

Before inspecting the work, establish the smallest useful context profile: product or feature, target audience, platform, lifecycle stage, and audit goal. Use the default core panel when those details do not justify a different panel.

2. Inspect the evidence

Review every supplied screenshot, design file, link, flow, and written requirement before auditing.

• Use a connected Figma tool when one is available and authorized.
• If a Figma or external link cannot be opened, say so and request screenshots or a concise description. Never imply that an inaccessible design was inspected.
• View attached images directly when the environment supports them.
• Distinguish observed evidence from inferred context. Label important assumptions.
• Tag material claims as Observed, Inferred, or To verify. A finding based only on an inference cannot be presented as a confirmed failure.
• Record the product type, audience, platform, and stage when known. Ask one compact context question only when the missing detail would change the panel or severity.

Infer product type, audience, and stage when the evidence makes them reasonably clear. If a missing detail would change the audit materially, ask one compact question covering the product, audience, and stage. Do not request information that can be derived from the supplied material.

3. Run each persona

Read the relevant blocks in references/personas.md, adopt each lens, and produce one report per selected perspective.

• Preserve the five-section sequence: Critical Issues, Warnings, What's Working Well, Opportunities, and the persona-specific Plan.
• Ground every finding in visible or described evidence.
• Identify the affected screen, step, component, or requirement whenever possible.
• Separate confirmed accessibility failures from risks that require implementation or contrast inspection to verify.
• Keep persona voices distinct without using insults, stereotypes, or theatrical filler.
• Prefer a short, specific report over invented or repetitive findings.
• Rate each finding as Critical, Major, or Minor, and include implementation urgency (Now, Next, or Later) when the context supports it.
• Route each issue to its owning lens: usability and flow to Frustrated User, WCAG and assistive technology to Accessibility Expert, visual composition to UI/UX Expert, and copy clarity to the relevant evidence-based observation. Do not duplicate one issue across personas unless the impact or fix materially differs.

4. Synthesize the audit

Place an executive summary before the persona reports. Include:

1. Cross-perspective synthesis: recurring themes, meaningful disagreements, and the overall readiness verdict. Omit comparison language when only one perspective runs.
2. Top issues: deduplicated findings ranked by user impact, business impact, accessibility severity, and implementation urgency.
3. Consolidated action plan: immediate fixes, next iteration work, and validation steps combined across the selected perspectives.

Do not rank cosmetic preferences above task blockers, accessibility barriers, data loss, broken flows, or misleading behavior.

For every top issue, include the evidence label, affected area, severity, why it matters, a concrete fix, and a validation question or test. If evidence is insufficient, list the question under To verify instead of inventing a verdict.

5. Deliver in an available format

Default to readable inline Markdown when the user does not request a file type.

• For Markdown, respond inline or create a .md file when the user asks for a downloadable artifact.
• For Word or PDF, use an available platform-native document tool or skill.
• If the requested file capability is unavailable, provide the complete report in Markdown and add one brief note explaining the fallback.
• When creating a file, use the writable output location and file-sharing mechanism provided by the current platform. Never assume a fixed filesystem path or tool name.
• Avoid wide tables for long findings. Use stacked sections when the user is on mobile or when table cells would become difficult to scan.

Use this document order:

# Design Audit - [Product Name]
## Executive Summary
## Top Issues
## Consolidated Action Plan
## [Perspective] Report
...one report per selected perspective...

Quality checks

Before delivering:

• Confirm every critical issue points to supplied evidence.
• Remove duplicate findings across perspectives from the executive summary.
• Make recommendations concrete enough to assign and verify.
• Preserve useful strengths, not only faults.
• Check that the result matches the user's language and requested format.
• Clearly disclose inaccessible sources, unsupported tools, and material assumptions.