Agent skill · product strategy · lobehub
product-design
Use for new surfaces, redesigns and vague product asks: establish user tasks and business meaning. Built-screen audits and visual polish have separate skills.
Why this skill is useful
Provides a structured approach to defining product semantics and user tasks that the AI wouldn't reliably generate on its own.
What it needs
About 5k tokens when loaded. Last updated 2026-08-07. 81,352 stars on the source repository.
What this skill does
Product Design Decide what to build and why before arguing about spacing. Two rules are non-negotiable: Never design from the surface. Establish what the business actually models first. Never turn the business model into the information architecture. The domain constrains what the surface may claim; the user's retrieval and decision task determines how the surface is organized. (P-14) This skill handles product meaning first. It may hand a grounded frame to ux or design-prototype, but discovery does not require implementation or a prototype. Strip out every framework, table and component name: if no product insight remains, the finding belongs in an engineering skill. Relationship to other skills Skill Question When ------------------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------- --------------------------- product-design What should this surface be, and why? Before or during framing ux How should the interaction behave and feel? While designing or building ux-audit Does the built surface honor those rules? After it exists design-prototype How can a materialized interaction be tested? When a prototype is useful Select the smallest run mode Mode Finish line --------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Discover Evidence map, business model, user-model hypotheses and structural diagnosis Frame Discover + view model, information architecture, scope and open decisions Materialize Frame + a requested spec and/or prototype Do not create or modify artifacts unless the user asked for a design artifact, prototype or repository change. For a substantial run, read references/pattern-base.md and references/layer-model.md in full. For a narrow question, inspect only the relevant patterns and state what scope was checked. Step 1 — Ground the business model Establish what is true before diagnosing the surface. …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
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