design-exploration

Design exploration analyzes your component's function, structure, and context to identify hard and soft constraints. It then selects meaningful variation axes—structural, content, conceptual, behavioral, or aesthetic—to generate distinct, structured design briefs for divergent exploration.

Exploring design alternatives requires comprehending the existing component and its constraints before generating new approaches. This skill distinguishes between hard and soft constraints, identifies degrees of freedom, and creates structured design briefs to ensure variations remain contextually grounded.

To create a structured design brief, the skill analyzes component function, interaction, and context to determine variation specifications. It generates a brief detailing the analysis, constraints, and specific variation axes, then delegates this context to a design subagent for prototyping.

Yes, you can explore conceptual and behavioral variations. The skill selects meaningful variation axes across structural, content, conceptual, behavioral, and aesthetic dimensions, ensuring divergent design exploration goes beyond surface-level visual changes.

When generating design alternatives, distinguish between hard constraints that cannot change and soft constraints with flexibility. The skill identifies degrees of freedom within your component's structure, content, and interaction to ensure variations are both distinct and viable.

Design ideation produces similar variations when meaningful axes are not properly selected. This skill solves the problem by analyzing component context and choosing distinct structural, conceptual, or behavioral exploration paths to generate truly divergent design hypotheses.