MC Dean

Structure compelling design presentations for stakeholders, reviews, and showcases.

Design clear, accessible data visualizations with appropriate chart selection and styling.

Create a modular typography scale with size, weight, and line-height relationships.

Define an illustration style guide with visual language, color usage, and application rules.

Design effective dark mode interfaces with proper color adaptation, contrast, and elevation.

Build a comprehensive color system with palette generation, semantic mapping, and accessibility compliance.

Create user flow diagrams showing paths, decisions, and branch logic.

Establish clear visual hierarchy through size, weight, color, spacing, and positioning.

Apply animation principles to UI motion for purposeful, polished interactions.

Create a consistent spacing system based on a base unit with contextual application rules.

Choose the right prototyping fidelity and method for the design question.

Specify wireframe layouts with content priority, component placement, and annotation.

Write effective UI copy including microcopy, error messages, empty states, and CTAs.

Create QA checklists for verifying design implementation accuracy.

Define responsive layout grid systems with columns, gutters, margins, and breakpoint behavior.

Create an icon system specification covering grid, sizing, naming, categories, and implementation guidance.

Design loading, skeleton, and progressive content reveal patterns.

Specify micro-interactions with trigger, rules, feedback, and loop/mode definitions.

Model complex UI behavior as finite state machines with states, events, and transitions.

Design adaptive layouts and interactions that work across all screen sizes and input methods.

Design error prevention, detection, and recovery experiences.

Define a set of actionable design principles that guide decision-making and resolve trade-offs.

Facilitate structured design critiques with clear feedback frameworks and actionable outcomes.

Conduct expert heuristic evaluations using Nielsen's heuristics and domain-specific criteria.

Define and organize design tokens (color, spacing, typography, elevation) with naming conventions and usage guidance.

Establish a naming convention system for design elements, components, and tokens with clear rules and examples.

Generate structured documentation templates for components, patterns, or guidelines within a design system.

Audit design token usage across a product for consistency and coverage.

Write a comprehensive design brief that defines the problem space, constraints, audience, and success criteria.

Craft portfolio-ready case studies that tell the story of a design project.

Write a detailed component specification including props, states, variants, accessibility requirements, and usage guidelines.

Conduct a comprehensive accessibility audit against WCAG guidelines with severity ratings and remediation steps.

Create accessibility testing plans covering assistive technologies and WCAG criteria.

Design a theming architecture that supports brand variants, dark mode, and high-contrast modes with token mapping.

Create developer handoff specifications with measurements, behaviors, assets, and edge cases.

Design team workflows covering task management, collaboration rituals, and tooling.

Design system feedback for user actions including confirmations, status updates, and notifications.

Build a 4-quadrant empathy map (Says, Thinks, Does, Feels) to synthesize user research into actionable insights. Use when you need to quickly capture and share user understanding across the team.

Write clear design rationale connecting decisions to user needs, business goals, and principles.

Map user Jobs-to-Be-Done with functional, emotional, and social dimensions plus outcome expectations. Use when reframing product decisions around user motivations rather than features.

Plan and facilitate design sprints from challenge framing through prototype testing.

Create an end-to-end user journey map with stages, touchpoints, emotions, pain points, and opportunity areas. Use when mapping the full user experience for a product, feature, or service.

Create a holistic experience map showing the full ecosystem of user touchpoints, channels, and relationships.

Design gesture-based interactions for touch and pointer devices.

Define version control strategies for design files, components, and libraries.

Write usability test scenarios with tasks, success criteria, and observation guides.

Design rigorous A/B tests with hypotheses, variants, metrics, and sample size calculations.

Design a diary study plan with prompts, duration, participant criteria, and analysis framework. Use when you need to understand user behavior over time in natural contexts.

Organize qualitative research data into an affinity diagram with themes, clusters, and insight statements. Use when synthesizing large amounts of qualitative data from interviews, observations, or surveys.

Create adoption strategies and materials to drive design system usage across teams.