design-exploration

To create a structured design brief for design exploration, analyze the component's function, content, interaction, visual structure, and context to identify constraints and select variation axes. This ensures comprehensive problem comprehension before generating design variations.

The best way to generate distinct design variations is by selecting 2-3 specific variation axes based on identified degrees of freedom. This approach produces distinct design hypotheses rather than arbitrary visual changes.

You identify constraints and degrees of freedom by analyzing the component's function, content, interaction, visual structure, and context. This analysis distinguishes hard limitations from flexible areas suitable for meaningful design variation.

Yes, you can use a structured design brief to delegate design variation generation to a design subagent. The brief includes component analysis, constraints, chosen axes, and variation specifications alongside source file paths for the subagent.

You need a structured design brief for component analysis when you want to explore design variations systematically. It ensures you comprehensively understand the component's function, interaction, and visual structure before delegating variation generation.

To start the design exploration process, you should provide the component's source code and context. The skill uses this input to generate a structured design brief with component analysis and variation specifications.