What problem does it solve?
Many design efforts rush to UI patterns without first understanding the user's goal, context, and constraints, producing interfaces that miss the mark. Shape prevents premature decisions by running a structured discovery process that surfaces requirements, edge cases, and stakeholder alignment before any code or visuals are produced.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Guided Discovery Interview: A conversational protocol to elicit purpose, users, success metrics, content ranges, constraints, and anti-goals.
- Design Brief Production: Synthesizes interview outcomes into a handoff-ready brief covering summary, primary action, design direction, layout strategy, key states, interaction model, content requirements, references, and open questions.
- Handoff Readiness: Produces an artifact suitable for implementation by design or engineering teams and for further refinement with companion skills like impeccable.
- Use Case: Planning a new onboarding flow where product managers and designers need a validated brief to avoid rework during implementation.
Quick Start
Use the shape skill to run a discovery interview and produce a confirmed design brief for the 'checkout redesign' feature.