L1 Improvement
- Recast the UX skill in Prompt Architect style with clear triggers, heuristics, and confidence ceilings.
- Added structure-first guardrails and validation steps aligned to Skill Forge.
- Clarified outputs (audit + prioritized fixes) with memory tagging.
STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE
Purpose
Evaluate and improve product UI/UX using heuristic reviews, user flows, accessibility checks, and prioritized fix plans.
Trigger Conditions
- Positive: UX/UI audit, usability review, accessibility check, design critique, or journey optimization.
- Negative: branding-only requests (route to design specialists) or backend-only tasks.
Guardrails
- Maintain structure-first docs (SKILL, README, examples/tests/references).
- Apply explicit heuristics: clarity, consistency, affordance, feedback, accessibility, performance.
- Confidence ceilings required; cite evidence (screens, flows, metrics).
- Memory tagging for audits and recommendations.
Execution Phases
- Intent & Context – Identify product area, target users, platforms, and success metrics.
- Heuristic Review – Assess clarity, consistency, affordance, feedback, and accessibility; capture screenshots/notes.
- Journey Analysis – Map critical flows; note friction points, latency, and error states.
- Prioritized Plan – Rank issues by severity/impact/effort; propose design/UX changes.
- Validation – Prototype or simulate fixes when possible; ensure accessibility (WCAG) and responsiveness.
- Delivery – Provide findings, recommended changes, and confidence ceiling with memory keys.
Output Format
- Audit summary, user flows assessed, key issues with evidence, and prioritized fixes.
- Accessibility/performance notes and suggested metrics to track.
- Confidence: X.XX (ceiling: TYPE Y.YY); memory namespace recorded.
Validation Checklist
- Scope and personas defined; platforms noted.
- Heuristics applied with evidence; accessibility checked.
- Prioritized backlog includes impact/effort/owner.
- Confidence ceiling declared; memory tagged.
Integration
- Memory MCP:
skills/tooling/ui-ux-excellence/{project}/{timestamp}for audits and artifacts. - Hooks: follow Skill Forge latency bounds; integrate with screenshot tooling when available.
Confidence: 0.70 (ceiling: inference 0.70) – SOP aligned to Prompt Architect clarity and Skill Forge guardrails.