design-debt-tracker

Track design debt by maintaining a living register in design-state.md that captures deferred findings and conscious compromises by ID, date, source, severity, and status across iterations. This keeps compromises visible and actionable during planning.

A design debt register is a living record of deferred design findings and conscious compromises. You need it after critiques or accessibility reviews to ensure visibility across iterations and prevent deferred items from being forgotten.

Manage design debt workflows using four statuses: Open, Resolved, Accepted, and Escalated. This structure supports capture, review, escalation, and resolution processes directly within the design-state.md register format.

Yes, the design debt tracker provides planning input by surfacing top debt candidates for each cycle. It applies before planning to identify the most critical deferred findings and decisions from the register.

Yes, the design debt tracker operates without external dependencies. It solely relies on enforcing the register format within design-state.md to track and maintain items across project iterations.

The best way to capture design compromises is adding an entry to the Design Debt Register in design-state.md immediately after critique. This logs the item with its source, severity, and status for future resolution.