Responsible Design Review

Responsible Design Review

Use this skill when a product, feature, plan, workflow, or AI agent behavior needs a human-impact review before it ships or becomes a default.

This is a Praneet-specific hand-port enhancement. It builds on GStack design review and GBrain memory, with an added design leadership lens for responsible design and social ethics.

Workflow

1. Define the human context:
   • who is affected
   • who has less power
   • what data or attention is being asked for
   • what could happen if the system is wrong, persuasive, or overused
2. Check responsible design dimensions:
   • consent and meaningful choice
   • user autonomy and agency
   • dark patterns or coercive defaults
   • vulnerable users and edge populations
   • bias, fairness, and representational harm
   • privacy, retention, deletion, and data dignity
   • explainability and recourse
   • escalation paths for sensitive outcomes
3. Review product incentives:
   • what the business wants
   • what the user wants
   • where those incentives diverge
4. Produce a decision:
   • proceed
   • proceed with mitigations
   • pause for research or policy review
   • do not ship in the current form
5. Save durable findings through reports, capture, or outcome-memory when the decision should affect future work.

Guardrails

• Do not reduce responsible design to a checklist when real harm is plausible.
• Do not treat legal compliance as the same thing as ethical design.
• Do not bury serious concerns under polish recommendations.
• Be explicit when the review needs affected-user research.