design-exploration

A design brief for variations guides divergent exploration by analyzing a component's function, constraints, and degrees of freedom. It ensures problem comprehension precedes generation by producing distinct design hypotheses for the subagent.

You generate variations by selecting 2–3 axes like structural, conceptual, behavioral, or aesthetic. The system composes concrete variation specifications from the component's degrees of freedom to drive meaningful divergent exploration.

Analyzing constraints for design methodology involves separating them into hard constraints and soft constraints. This distinction identifies exact degrees of freedom available to drive meaningful and structured design variation.

You need a formal design brief for divergent exploration when you request multiple component variations. It ensures comprehensive problem comprehension by formally delegating distinct design hypotheses to a design subagent.

No specific dependencies are required to generate a design brief. The system operates independently to analyze component functions and constraints, requiring only a target component and your exploration goal as input.