design-review

A UI design audit identifies and fixes visual inconsistencies by evaluating hierarchy, spacing, typography, and interaction patterns, producing a reproducible checklist and before/after evidence to reduce design drift.

To perform visual QA for web app dashboards, audit layout and interaction patterns across multiple pages or components, generate a reproducible checklist, and apply iterative fixes with before/after verification.

Yes, you can use design review for pre-implementation polish and redlines by running a plan-mode critique that surfaces layout, typography, color, and interaction issues before development begins.

A design system is not strictly required, but the visual QA process suggests fixes specifically aligned to a design system to ensure consistency and raise overall UI quality during polish cycles.

The best way to capture before/after evidence during a design review is to apply iterative fixes with atomic commits, verifying that each change is tangible and aligned with the established design system.

Spacing and typography drift occurs in multi-page web apps when visual QA is skipped during iterative development, causing accumulated inconsistencies in hierarchy and interaction patterns that require an audit to resolve.