Agent skill · design visual · nexu-io
design-brief
Parse a structured design brief written in I-Lang protocol format into a concrete design spec. Eliminates ambiguity from vague requests like "make it professional" by requiring explicit dimensions: palette, typography, layout, mood, density, and constraints. Trigger keywords: "design brief", "create a design brief", "ilang brief", "structured brief".
Why this skill is useful
Adds a structured parsing workflow for design briefs that standardizes inputs into a concrete design spec, which the AI wouldn't reliably generate on its own.
What it needs
About 8k tokens when loaded. Last updated 2026-08-07. 84,236 stars on the source repository.
What this skill does
Design Brief Skill Parse a structured design brief into a concrete DESIGN.md and optional visual preview. Agent, follow this workflow exactly. Background The 8 dimensions in this skill were derived from OpenDesign's original 71-system catalog; 71 is the research sample, not the current bundled-system count. Every DESIGN.md in design-systems/ still resolves at minimum: color palette, accent, typography, display font, layout model, and component style. We distilled these into 8 orthogonal dimensions that cover the decisions a designer makes before any pixel is placed. Mood and density were added because they are the two most common sources of ambiguity in natural language briefs ("make it clean" means different things to different people). Dimensions intentionally excluded from the brief level: animation timing, responsive strategy, and accessibility contrast. These are enforced at the template level by individual skills (e.g., saas-landing handles its own responsive logic), though the generated DESIGN.md includes sensible breakpoint defaults for downstream consumption. 1. Accept input The user provides a design brief in one of two formats: Option A: I-Lang structured brief Option B: Natural language "I need a landing page for a developer tool. Clean, minimal, dark mode. Inter font. No flashy animations." If the user provides Option B, convert it to the structured format using the mapping table below, then proceed. Identify every dimension explicitly stated and flag dimensions that were left unspecified. …
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@skills nexu-io/design-brief