design-exploration

A design exploration brief works by resolving divergent design requests through a mandatory analysis phase that reads the target component, determines degrees of freedom, and identifies meaningful variation axes before delegating generation tasks.

Analyzing constraints before generation ensures problem comprehension, preventing unfocused outputs by separating hard limitations from soft constraints and identifying true degrees of freedom for meaningful divergent exploration.

The best way to define variation axes is to evaluate the target component against its design brief, separating fixed constraints from flexible degrees of freedom to guide the divergent thinking process.

You delegate a design brief by first completing the component analysis to identify constraints and variation axes, then passing this structured brief to the design subagent to execute the generation phase.

Yes, design exploration explicitly handles strict constraints by identifying them as hard limitations during the analysis phase, ensuring the generated variations respect these boundaries while exploring available degrees of freedom.