Overview
This Skill operationalizes AiDesigner’s discovery journey playbooks. It walks teams through persona alignment, journey mapping, inspiration scraping, and insight distillation so they can kick off new initiatives with confidence.
When to Use
- •Beginning a new product or feature where customer understanding is limited.
- •Refreshing personas or journeys for an existing product pivot.
- •Preparing research artifacts for the Nano Banana storytelling workflow.
Workflow
- •Frame the opportunity
- •Clarify goals, success metrics, and constraints using
aidesigner-core/templates/project-brief-tmpl.yaml. - •Document target personas and user research in your project's discovery documentation.
- •Clarify goals, success metrics, and constraints using
- •Run the journey session
- •Facilitate the guided workshop agenda, capturing
moments,pain points, andopportunities. - •Document journey mapping artifacts in your project's research documentation.
- •Facilitate the guided workshop agenda, capturing
- •Collect visual inspiration
- •Use the built-in inspiration prompt list to gather references.
- •Optionally trigger MCP-powered Chrome scraping tools to import screenshots or color palettes.
- •Normalize findings into moodboards or inspiration grids.
- •Synthesize insights
- •Summarize key observations, tensions, and design guardrails.
- •Extract tokens for handoff to the UI Design System Adherence Skill.
- •Publish discovery bundle
- •(Note:
bin/aidesigner discovery exportis planned but not yet implemented) - •Package the session outputs into your project's documentation directory.
- •Attach relevant inspiration boards and persona updates for downstream workflows.
- •(Note:
Checklists
- • Stakeholders and facilitators aligned on goals.
- • Personas validated with latest qualitative/quantitative data.
- • Journey map covers end-to-end lifecycle.
- • Inspiration assets tagged with rationale.
- • Insights and opportunities logged for the next sprint planning cycle.
Tips
- •Pair with the UI Design System Adherence Skill to translate insights into component-level guidance.
- •Capture audio or transcript summaries during workshops for richer story extraction.
- •Revisit this Skill quarterly to keep research assets evergreen.
Next Steps
Feed synthesized insights into the Architecture QA & Tech Stack Governance Skill to ensure technical decisions honor user truths uncovered during discovery.