What problem does it solve?
This skill eliminates the disjointed, ad-hoc approach to UX design planning by providing a structured, step-by-step collaborative workflow that ensures all critical UX considerations are covered, from project understanding and core experience definition to visual foundation, user journey design, and accessibility planning, reducing rework and aligning stakeholders on a single source of truth for UX decisions.
Core Features & Use Cases
- 14-Step Collaborative Workflow: Guides users through a complete UX design process including project discovery, core experience definition, emotional response mapping, design system selection, visual foundation setup, design direction exploration, user journey flow design, component strategy, UX consistency patterns, and responsive/accessibility planning.
- Workflow Continuation Support: Automatically detects and resumes interrupted UX design workflows, preserving all previously completed work and context so users never lose progress.
- Integrated Insight Protocols: Supports optional Advanced Elicitation and Party Mode protocols to deepen insights, challenge assumptions, and incorporate multiple perspectives into UX decisions.
- Use Case: Ideal for product teams planning new product UX, UX designers standardizing design specification processes, and stakeholders needing to align on a unified UX vision before development begins. The workflow outputs a complete, structured UX design specification document plus visual assets like design direction mockups and color theme visualizers.
Quick Start
Use the bmad-create-ux-design skill to start a guided collaborative workflow that will help you create a complete, structured UX design specification for your product.