Design & UX

Decide HOW LOW to go for a bare-metal 2D/text rendering pipeline on Apple GPUs, and pay the right costs. Covers the layered choice — pure objc2-metal + hand-written MSL (own command queue, glyph atlas, frame pacing) vs wgpu (Metal under the hood, cross-platform) vs Vello-on-wgpu (compute vector renderer you don't have to write) — plus CAMetalLayer/CADisplayLink frame pacing, ProMotion 120Hz, the glyph-atlas / signed-distance-field text problem, CPU-GPU sync, and honest cost accounting of "pur...

20 years Weta/Pixar experience in real-time graphics, Metal shaders, and visual effects. Expert in MSL shaders, PBR rendering, tile-based deferred rendering (TBDR), and GPU debugging. Activate on 'Metal shader', 'MSL', 'compute shader', 'vertex shader', 'fragment shader', 'PBR', 'ray tracing', 'tile shader', 'GPU profiling', 'Apple GPU'. NOT for WebGL/GLSL (different architecture), general OpenGL (deprecated on Apple), CUDA (NVIDIA only), or CPU-side rendering optimization.

Creates web experiences that embrace density, richness, and visual abundance. Maximalism is the deliberate, skilled rejection of "less is more" — it argues that **more is more**, that empty space is wasted space, and that visual complexity can be navigated when properly orchestrated.

Expert in designing trustworthy, accessible legal technology interfaces that convert vulnerable populations while meeting compliance requirements.

Expert in visualizing and explaining braid theory, knot mathematics, and topological concepts for educational purposes. Use for creating interactive visualizations, explainer cards, step-wise animations, and translating abstract algebra into intuitive understanding. Activate on keywords: braid theory, knot visualization, σ notation, crossing diagrams, Yang-Baxter, topological education. NOT for general math tutoring, pure knot invariant computation, or non-educational knot theory research.

Makes iOS apps feel premium, polished, and unmistakably native — SF Symbols mastery, SwiftUI spring animations, haptic feedback choreography, blur/vibrancy materials, Dynamic Type, color system design, and the specific spacings and radii Apple uses. This is about TASTE, not syntax. Activate on 'iOS design polish', 'SwiftUI animation', 'SF Symbols', 'haptic feedback', 'premium iOS feel', 'Apple HIG', 'native iOS look', 'Liquid Glass', 'iOS visual design', 'app polish'.

Expert interior designer with deep knowledge of space planning, color theory (Munsell, NCS), lighting design (IES standards), furniture proportions, and AI-assisted visualization. Use for room layout optimization, lighting calculations, color palette selection for interiors, furniture placement, style consultation. Activate on "interior design", "room layout", "lighting design", "furniture placement", "space planning", "Munsell color". NOT for exterior/landscape design, architectural structur...

Builds, rehabilitates, audits, and hardens premium production web apps from a durable design-system contract. Use for React, Next.js, or Vite apps, including dirty existing website repos, where token discipline, Radix or Headless UI primitives, visual user review, accessibility, Storybook, performance, SEO, observability, security, privacy, reliability, release engineering, sustainability, i18n, content depth, and adversarial verification matter. NOT for small static snippets, one-off CSS twe...

name: human-centered-design-fundamentals

Generate hand-drawn style diagrams and infographics for recovery education articles. Creates anatomist's notebook aesthetic visuals - brain diagrams, timelines, social comparisons, and process flows using continuous line art, semantic color coding, and margin annotations.

Metal/wgpu/WGSL shader surfaces for native Rust gpui apps (Zed-family, pd-console), stockpiled with beautiful copy-pasteable shader-toy examples. Use for custom GPU fragment passes behind/around gpui panes: ocean/water shaders, pixelated waves and boats, a living harbor, dithered chrome borders, sonar sweeps, aurora/starfields, CRT/scanline post. Trigger on: wgsl, wgpu, metal shader, gpui shader, shadertoy, fragment shader, SDF, noise/fbm, ordered dithering, pixelation, render-to-texture, "pi...

Applies Gestalt psychology principles to web layout, spacing, grouping, and visual hierarchy. Proximity, similarity, closure, continuity, figure-ground, common fate, Pragnanz — translated into CSS, component structure, and information architecture. Activate on 'gestalt', 'visual grouping', 'proximity spacing', 'visual hierarchy', 'perceptual organization', 'layout psychology', 'whitespace strategy'. NOT for color theory (use color-theory-palette-harmony-expert), not for accessibility auditing...

Expert in temporal event detection, spatio-temporal clustering (ST-DBSCAN), and photo context understanding. Use for detecting photo events, clustering by time/location, shareability prediction, place recognition, event significance scoring, and life event detection. Activate on 'event detection', 'temporal clustering', 'ST-DBSCAN', 'spatio-temporal', 'shareability prediction', 'place recognition', 'life events', 'photo events', 'temporal diversity'. NOT for individual photo aesthetic quality...

Master of text-based visual communication using ASCII art, Unicode box-drawing, and structured diagram notation. Creates clear, maintainable diagrams for systems, processes, hierarchies, relationships, and psychological structures. Proactively generates diagrams to enhance understanding. Activate on visualization needs, system architecture, process flows, psychological mapping, or when complex concepts would benefit from visual representation. NOT for photo editing, vector graphics, or GUI-ba...

Analyze design trends and recommend appropriate styles, color palettes, and typography systems for your project based on current design movements. NOT for accessibility auditing or full design system creation.

Generates production-ready design tokens from natural language descriptions. Outputs Tailwind configs, CSS custom properties, and DTCG W3C tokens from 24 trends + 31 AI-ready styles with 2800+ component examples.

Creates comprehensive documentation for design systems - token tables, usage guidelines, component examples, and accessibility notes. Use after generating tokens to create developer-friendly docs.

Builds comprehensive design systems and design bibles with production-ready CSS. Expert in design tokens, component libraries, CSS architecture. Use for design system creation, token architecture, component documentation, style guide generation. Activate on "design system", "design tokens", "CSS architecture", "component library", "style guide", "design bible". NOT for typography deep-dives (use typography-expert), color theory mathematics (use color-theory-palette-harmony-expert), brand iden...

Guides the practical path from 'we have no design system' or 'we have a mess' to a real, functional design system. Component inventory, design token extraction, headless UI adoption (Radix, React Aria, Headless UI), migration order of operations, and the assessment-to-rollout pipeline. Activate on 'design system from scratch', 'bootstrap design system', 'no design system', 'design system migration', 'headless UI adoption', 'component audit', 'design token extraction', 'design system strategy'...

Digital equity and trauma-informed design for marginalized populations. Activate on "accessibility", "offline-first", "trauma-informed", "reentry", "recovery population", "shared device", "unstable phone", "digital equity", "design justice", "low-literacy", "intermittent access". NOT for general UX, marketing optimization, or enterprise SaaS design.

Aesthetic assessment and design scoring across 6 dimensions. Use for UI critique, design review, visual quality assessment, remix suggestions. Activate on "design critique", "aesthetic review", "UI assessment", "visual quality", "design score", "remix this design". NOT for implementation (use frontend-developer), accessibility-only audits (use color-contrast-auditor), or brand identity creation.

Long-running design anthropologist that builds comprehensive visual databases from 500-1000 real-world examples, extracting color palettes, typography patterns, layout systems, and interaction design across any domain (portfolios, e-commerce, SaaS, adult content, technical showcases). This skill should be used when users need exhaustive design research, pattern recognition across large example sets, or systematic visual analysis for competitive positioning.

Audit designs, color palettes, and UI components for WCAG 2.1 accessibility compliance, providing specific fixes for contrast, touch targets, focus indicators, and screen reader support. NOT for color harmony aesthetics or design system creation.

State-of-the-art data visualization for React/Next.js/TypeScript with Tailwind CSS. Creates compelling, tested, and accessible visualizations following Tufte principles and NYT Graphics standards. Activate on "data viz", "chart", "graph", "visualization", "dashboard", "plot", "Recharts", "Nivo", "D3". NOT for static images, print graphics, or basic HTML tables.