Design Ops

Streamline design operations with critique frameworks, handoff specs, sprint planning, review processes, and team workflows.

Skills (9)

• design-critique — Facilitate a structured team critique — framing, feedback rules, and actionable outcomes. Use when running a session with people in the room. For a solo expert review, use heuristic-evaluation (prototyping-testing).
• design-debt-audit — Inventory and prioritise accumulated design inconsistencies across a product. Use when drift has built up over time. For token coverage specifically use design-token-audit (designer-toolkit); for WCAG gaps use accessibility-audit (design-systems).
• design-impact-reporting — Communicate design's contribution to business and user outcomes in stakeholder language. Use when reporting results upward. For choosing the metrics in the first place, use metrics-definition (ux-strategy).
• design-qa-checklist — Build a QA checklist for verifying that a build matches the design. Use at implementation review. For the spec engineers build from, use handoff-spec.
• design-review-process — Establish review gates — criteria, checkpoints, and approval flow. Use when work ships without consistent review. For running one individual session, use design-critique.
• design-sprint-plan — Plan and facilitate a design sprint from challenge framing through prototype testing. Use when compressing discovery into days. For ongoing team cadence, use team-workflow.
• handoff-spec — Write the implementation handoff — measurements, behaviours, assets, states, and edge cases. Use when engineering picks up the work. For verifying the result afterwards use design-qa-checklist; for reusable library components use component-spec (design-systems).
• team-workflow — Design the team's operating rhythm — task management, collaboration rituals, and tooling. Use when the day-to-day cadence needs structure. For a time-boxed sprint, use design-sprint-plan.
• version-control-strategy — Define version control for design files, components, and libraries — branching, naming, and release. Use when file history is chaotic. For design system contribution rules, use design-system-governance (design-systems).

Commands (3)

• /handoff — Run the full handoff workflow — specs, measurements, assets, states, and a QA checklist — and output a developer-ready package.
• /plan-sprint — Run a design sprint end to end — challenge framing, schedule, exercises, and prototype test plan.
• /setup-workflow — Set up a team's operating rhythm end to end — rituals, task flow, tooling, review gates, and version control.