What problem does it solve?
Many teams start building interfaces without first understanding the user, context, and constraints, which leads to poor UX, rework, and misaligned engineering effort. Shape prevents premature design decisions by running a structured discovery interview and producing a handoff-ready design brief that guides implementation.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Guided Discovery Interview: Ask targeted questions about purpose, users, content, goals, constraints, and edge cases to gather the design context needed for thoughtful decisions.
- Structured Design Brief: Synthesize interview responses into a clear brief covering feature summary, primary user action, design direction, layout strategy, key states, interaction model, content needs, references, and open questions.
- Handoff Ready Output: Create an artifact suitable for handoff to designers, engineers, or the impeccable craft workflow for implementation.
- Use Case: Product managers preparing a new dashboard feature can use Shape to clarify success metrics, data ranges, mobile constraints, and accessibility needs before any UI is sketched.
Quick Start
Run the shape skill and provide the feature purpose, target users, content examples, technical constraints, and desired success metrics so it can perform a discovery interview and produce a design brief.