Design Direction — SUPERSEDED by /impeccable teach

⚠️ This skill is superseded. The pipeline now uses the impeccable skill for all frontend design work. The /impeccable teach command provides a more comprehensive design discovery process: it runs a multi-round interview covering users, brand, tone, strategic principles, and visual identity, then writes PRODUCT.md and DESIGN.md files that all other impeccable commands consume.

This file is retained for pipeline backward compatibility. When the pipeline triggers design direction discovery, delegate to /impeccable teach.

Delegation Protocol

When this skill is invoked (e.g., during /create-prd-stack):

1. Run /impeccable teach to gather design context
2. Extract the confirmed design direction, color palette, typography, and motion philosophy from the resulting PRODUCT.md and DESIGN.md
3. Fire bootstrap with the extracted DESIGN_DIRECTION, PRIMARY_COLOR, HEADING_FONT, etc.
4. Do NOT run the legacy constraint questions or option table below

Legacy Content (Reference Only)

The original design direction interview methodology is preserved below for reference. Do not use it — use /impeccable teach instead.

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Constraint Questions

1. What is the emotional tone of the product? (professional/trustworthy, playful/approachable, premium/luxury, raw/technical, editorial/content-first)
2. Who is the primary audience? (developers, consumers, enterprise, creatives, general public)
3. Are there existing brand assets? (logo, colors, fonts)
4. What are the top 2–3 competitors' visual styles?
5. Are there hard constraints? (WCAG AA required, white-label needs, dark mode required, existing brand guidelines)

Option Table

Direction	What It Is	Pros	Cons	Best For
Minimal/Functional	Clean, whitespace-heavy, typography-led	Timeless, fast, accessible	Can feel cold or generic	SaaS tools, developer products
Editorial/Magazine	Strong typographic hierarchy, content-first	Distinctive	Complex to maintain	Media, blogs, knowledge platforms
Luxury/Refined	Restrained palette, premium materials feel	High perceived value	Can feel inaccessible	Premium SaaS, fintech
Playful/Expressive	Bold color, personality, illustration	Memorable	Can age quickly	Consumer apps, gaming, social
Technical/Brutalist	Raw, grid-exposed, monospace, data-dense	Authentic for technical audiences	Polarizing	Dev tools, dashboards
Hybrid	Combine elements from two directions	Best of both	Requires design discipline	When constraints pull two ways

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