What problem does it solve?
Distill removes unnecessary complexity from designs so users can complete their primary tasks faster and with less cognitive load. It helps teams reveal the essential elements of an interface by eliminating visual noise, redundant actions, and confusing hierarchies while preserving accessibility and functionality.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Assess complexity: Identify too many elements, excessive variation, information overload, visual noise, confusing hierarchy, and feature creep.
- Ruthless planning: Define the single core purpose, essential elements, and opportunities for progressive disclosure or consolidation.
- Targeted simplification: Apply changes across information architecture, visual design, layout, interactions, content, and code to reduce clutter and improve hierarchy.
- Verification & documentation: Measure faster task completion, reduced cognitive load, preserved feature access, and improved performance, and document removed complexity and rationale.
- Use Cases: Streamline a dashboard for first-time users, trim a multi-step signup into a single clear flow, or reduce options on a feature screen to highlight the primary CTA.
Quick Start
Use the distill skill to simplify the provided UI by focusing on its single primary user goal, removing nonessential elements, and recommending the exact elements to remove or hide while preserving accessibility.