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What problem does it solve?

It resolves form-vs-function design disputes by making the team’s success criteria explicit, so decisions are evaluated against agreed outcomes rather than implicit preferences.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Success-criteria reframing: shift the question from “what should we omit?” to “what must be critical to succeed?” for this specific surface.
• Criteria identification and ranking: list candidate criteria (user performance, satisfaction, business outcomes, brand differentiation, accessibility, cost, maintainability, emotional response) and prioritize the dominant ones.
• Trade-off decision support: evaluate candidate design choices against the top 2–3 criteria, then accept deliberate trade-offs on lower-priority criteria, including worked examples for disputed designs.

Quick Start

Ask an AI assistant to help you list and rank the success criteria for your disputed UI or product surface, then evaluate which design option best satisfies the top criteria.