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This skill helps you apply ux design standards with secure, maintainable, and testable patterns across projects.

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---
name: ux
description: Ux standards for ux in Design environments. Covers best practices, implementation
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# Ux

> **Quick Navigation:**
> Level 1: [Quick Start](#level-1-quick-start) (5 min) → Level 2: [Implementation](#level-2-implementation) (30 min) → Level 3: [Mastery](#level-3-mastery-resources) (Extended)

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## Level 1: Quick Start

### Core Principles

1. **Best Practices**: Follow industry-standard patterns for design
2. **Security First**: Implement secure defaults and validate all inputs
3. **Maintainability**: Write clean, documented, testable code
4. **Performance**: Optimize for common use cases

### Essential Checklist

- [ ] Follow established patterns for design
- [ ] Implement proper error handling
- [ ] Add comprehensive logging
- [ ] Write unit and integration tests
- [ ] Document public interfaces

### Quick Links to Level 2

- [Core Concepts](#core-concepts)
- [Implementation Patterns](#implementation-patterns)
- [Common Pitfalls](#common-pitfalls)

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## Level 2: Implementation

### Core Concepts

This skill covers essential practices for design.

**Key areas include:**

- Architecture patterns
- Implementation best practices
- Testing strategies
- Performance optimization

### Implementation Patterns

Apply these patterns when working with design:

1. **Pattern Selection**: Choose appropriate patterns for your use case
2. **Error Handling**: Implement comprehensive error recovery
3. **Monitoring**: Add observability hooks for production

### Common Pitfalls

Avoid these common mistakes:

- Skipping validation of inputs
- Ignoring edge cases
- Missing test coverage
- Poor documentation

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## Level 3: Mastery Resources

### Reference Materials

- [Related Standards](../../docs/standards/)
- [Best Practices Guide](../../docs/guides/)

### Templates

See the `templates/` directory for starter configurations.

### External Resources

Consult official documentation and community best practices for design.

Overview

This skill codifies UX standards for design environments, giving teams a concise set of principles, patterns, and checklists to start projects correctly. It focuses on secure defaults, maintainable implementations, and performance-minded design. The content is actionable and organized into quick-start, implementation, and mastery levels for progressive adoption.

How this skill works

The skill inspects core UX concerns: architecture patterns, error handling, testing strategy, and observability hooks. It provides implementation patterns to apply in design systems, a checklist for essential deliverables, and guidance on avoiding common pitfalls. Templates and reference materials speed up project setup and ensure consistent, production-ready UX practices.

When to use it

  • Starting a new design project and needing a minimal set of battle-tested UX standards
  • Onboarding designers and developers to a shared pattern language and checklist
  • Auditing an existing product for UX risks like missing validation or poor error handling
  • Implementing monitoring and observability for design components in production
  • Creating templates and starter configurations for repeatable design work

Best practices

  • Adopt secure defaults and validate all inputs at component boundaries
  • Choose patterns purposefully; match complexity of the pattern to the problem
  • Prioritize clear public interfaces and concise documentation for components
  • Include unit and integration tests to cover core flows and edge cases
  • Instrument key interactions for observability and add comprehensive logging

Example use cases

  • Rapidly scaffolding a design system with templates and a checklist to ensure coverage
  • Improving resilience by adding structured error recovery and validation layers
  • Benchmarking and optimizing common user flows for better performance
  • Integrating monitoring hooks to trace UX issues in production
  • Running a UX hygiene audit to identify gaps in tests, docs, and input validation

FAQ

How long does it take to apply the quick-start checklist?

The quick-start checklist is designed to be actionable in about five minutes for initial setup, with implementation patterns available for a deeper 30-minute follow-up.

Are there templates I can reuse for new projects?

Yes. The skill includes starter templates for common configurations to accelerate consistent project setup and enforce standards from day one.