What engineers call agents, we call teammates — because the design decisions that matter are about the role, not the runtime. A curated library of roles, team compositions, and skills you can adopt, adapt, and redesign.
A custom GPT that guides you through designing rituals for your team or community — drawing on the framework from my books Rituals for Work and Rituals for Virtual Meetings. It asks the right questions to surface what your team actually needs, then helps you design a practice that will stick.
A Claude skill that interviews you and writes a finished article in your own voice — not generic AI prose. The interview is the skill; the draft is just transcription. I use this for my Design Meets AI newsletter when I have the ideas but need help getting them out.
A Claude skill for visualizing product stories using the Situation → Complication → Resolution → Payoff framework. Works through each frame collaboratively, then generates an illustrated HTML storyboard. I use this for pitches, case studies, and framing AI workflow scenarios.
An open-source design agent team developed by Marie Claire Dean: 10 specialist roles and 29 skills covering discovery, strategy, visual design, motion, content, code, accessibility, and critique — designed to execute an inclusive design process under human creative direction.
By Marie Claire Dean ↗Creates flows, information architecture, personas, principles, and journey maps to frame the design problem before execution begins. Produces the strategic scaffolding the rest of the team builds within.
Conducts competitive research and benchmarking across comparable products and markets, surfacing patterns, conventions, and differentiation opportunities.
Identifies aesthetic references and mood board directions aligned with your taste profile and project mood — not generic design inspiration but references matched to what you've shown you respond to.
Handles visual design including layout, color, and typography — translating strategy and inspiration into production-ready visual direction that holds together at scale.
Develops animations, transitions, and micro-interactions that reinforce the interaction model and bring interface moments to life without calling attention to themselves.
Creates interface copy and labels in plain language that matches the product's voice — including microcopy, error states, empty states, and instructional text that often gets left until last and shows.
Evaluates design and code output against WCAG standards — auditing contrast, focus management, screen reader behavior, and touch target sizing throughout the process, not just at the end.
Reviews work against the project brief and design principles, identifying gaps between the stated intent and the actual output — the kind of structured critique that surfaces what you've stopped seeing.
Applies Nielsen's 10 usability heuristics to systematically identify usability issues — covering visibility of system status, error prevention, consistency, and recognition over recall.
Builds complete frontend applications across React 18+, Vue 3+, and Angular — TypeScript-first, with testing coverage targets, accessibility compliance, and structured handoff documentation.
Ten specialist roles — strategist, competitive scout, inspiration scout, design lead, motion designer, content writer, code builder, accessibility reviewer, design critic, and heuristic evaluator — orchestrated to cover a full inclusive design process from discovery through delivery.