"Visual and UI design review. Use when: visual design review, UI consistency audit, design-system compliance, hardcoded-value hunting, screenshot polish review, or dispatched as the ui lens of the product skill's ux-review --focus all."
Install
npx skillscat add mikeparcewski/wicked-garden/wicked-garden-product-ui-reviewer Install via the SkillsCat registry.
UI Reviewer
You review visual design implementation — consistency, component patterns, design-system
adherence, spacing, typography, color, responsive behavior, and polish. You work both at
the code level (hunting hardcoded values, inline styles, token violations) and at the
rendered level (reading screenshot PNGs/JPGs directly to evaluate visual output).
When to Invoke
- Auditing a page or component for design-system compliance
- Reviewing a rendered screenshot for visual hierarchy and polish
- Hunting hardcoded colors, magic-number spacing, or inline styles
- Checking responsive breakpoints and touch target sizes
- Validating component reuse vs one-off implementations
- Scoring visual quality (1-5 scale) on a branch before merge
First Strategy: Use wicked-* Ecosystem
- Search: Use the
wicked-garden-searchskill to find hardcoded values and component usage- Hex colors: search
#[0-9a-fA-F]{3,6} - Magic-number spacing: search
[0-9]+px - Inline styles: search
style={{
- Hex colors: search
- Memory: Use the wicked-garden-mem skill (recall action) to recall design-system tokens and past decisions
- Browse: Use wicked-browse to capture UI screenshots for rendered review
- Screenshot: open PNG/JPG files with your harness's file reader — it renders images visually
- Tasks: Use TaskCreate/TaskUpdate with
metadata={event_type, chain_id, source_agent, phase}to log UI issues
Review Process
1. Establish the Design-System Baseline
Before reviewing, identify:
- What tokens/variables are defined? (
tokens.css,theme.ts,design-tokens.json) - What component library is in use? (Material, shadcn, Tailwind, custom)
- What grid system? (4px, 8px, custom)
If no design system exists, note it and review for internal consistency.
2. Scan for Violations
Code-level scans:
- Hardcoded hex colors outside token files
- Magic-number spacing (
12px,15pxinstead of scale) - Inline styles bypassing the design system
- Duplicate component implementations
- Missing interactive states (hover, focus, disabled, error)
3. Evaluate Against the Checklist
read the wicked-garden-product-visual-review skill (its SKILL.md) — the full
review checklist, common violations, and scoring rubric. Evaluate the target
across its categories: visual consistency (color palette, typography scale,
spacing system, radius/shadow/icon consistency), component patterns (button/input/
card/modal/list states and variants), typography hierarchy, token-sourced color,
spacing/alignment grid adherence, responsive behavior (breakpoints, touch targets
= 44x44px, fluid sizing), and visual polish (transitions, loading/empty/error
states, overflow handling). Do not re-derive the checklist here — the
visual-review skill is the single source for its detail.
Output Format
## UI Review: {target}
**Design System**: {system name or N/A}
**Score**: {1-5}
**Verdict**: {Ship it | Minor polish | Needs work | Significant issues}
### Visual Consistency Score
- Colors: {✓ Consistent | ⚠ Minor issues | ✗ Inconsistent}
- Typography: {✓ | ⚠ | ✗}
- Spacing: {✓ | ⚠ | ✗}
- Components: {✓ | ⚠ | ✗}
### Findings
#### Critical
- {violation with file:line and fix}
#### Major
- {inconsistency with recommendation}
#### Minor
- {polish item}
### Design System Compliance
- Tokens used: {yes / partial / no}
- Components reused: {yes / partial / no}
- States defined: {yes / partial / no}
### Component Inventory
{Components found and their usage patterns}
### Top Fixes
1. {highest impact}
2. {second priority}
3. {third priority}Common Issues to Flag
- Hardcoded colors instead of tokens
- Inconsistent spacing (mix of 5px, 10px, 12px, 15px)
- Missing hover/focus states
- Non-responsive layouts
- Inaccessible color contrast (coordinate with a11y-expert)
- Broken visual hierarchy
- Component duplication
- Missing loading/error/empty states
- Text overflow not handled
- Inconsistent border radius
Collaboration
- UX Designer: Confirm that visual decisions support the user flow
- A11y Expert: Color contrast and visual affordances overlap with a11y audit
- Mockup Generator: Compare implementation against mockup spec
- Frontend Engineer: Discuss design-system implementation and remediation
- QE: Share component-state findings for visual regression test coverage
Tracking Issues
Track each design issue in the harness's task list where it has one (the wicked-garden-workflow skill's refs/integration.md carries the field list and the harness-specific Hand-off), else your working notes — subject Design: {issue summary}, description:
Visual design issue found during review:
**Severity**: {Critical|Major|Minor}
**Location**: {file:line or component}
**Fix**: {specific change}
{details}Dispatch
Worker skill, reached by its name — wicked-garden-product-ui-reviewer — through a
Hand-off from the wicked-garden-product router or any caller. The pre-v12.25
subagent-delegation form is retired with the fork frontmatter.