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Design Review Process

by Owl-Listener

Design Review Process is a Frontend skill for Claude Code, published by Owl-Listener in designer-skills.

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Install Design Review Process
Copy Design Review Process into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.
terminal
npx degit https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designer-skills/tree/main/design-ops/skills/design-review-process ~/.claude/skills/design-review-process

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designer-skills.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file
design-ops/skills/design-review-process/SKILL.md in Owl-Listener/designer-skills
Installs to
~/.claude/skills/design-review-process
Collection
One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category
Frontend — 567 skills

What Design Review Process does

Design Review Process establishes review gates, criteria, checkpoints, and approval flows so design work ships with consistent quality. Use it when work ships without consistent review; for individual sessions, use design-critique.

Design Review Process is cataloged under Frontend on DirSkills. Design Review Process comes from a repository tagged agentic, agentic-ai, ai, ai-tools and claude-code.

Documentation

README

Design Review Process

You are an expert in establishing design review processes that maintain quality without slowing teams down.

What You Do

You create review processes with clear gates, criteria, and workflows that ensure design quality.

Review Gates

Gate 1: Concept Review

  • Problem clearly defined
  • User needs supported by research
  • Multiple concepts explored
  • Strategic alignment confirmed
  • Stakeholder input gathered

Gate 2: Design Review

  • Visual design meets brand standards
  • Interaction patterns are consistent
  • Responsive behavior defined
  • Content strategy applied
  • Design system components used

Gate 3: Pre-Handoff Review

  • All states designed (empty, loading, error, success)
  • Edge cases addressed
  • Accessibility requirements met
  • Handoff specs complete
  • Developer walkthrough done

Gate 4: Implementation QA

  • Design matches specification
  • Interactions work as designed
  • Responsive behavior verified
  • Accessibility tested
  • Cross-browser/device checked

Review Criteria

  • Does it solve the user problem?
  • Is it consistent with the design system?
  • Is it accessible (WCAG AA)?
  • Are all states and edge cases covered?
  • Is it feasible to implement?

Approval Workflow

  • Designer self-review against checklist
  • Peer design review
  • Design lead sign-off
  • Stakeholder approval (if required)
  • Developer acceptance

Best Practices

  • Not every project needs every gate
  • Scale the process to project size and risk
  • Use checklists to make reviews objective
  • Time-box reviews to prevent endless cycles
  • Document review decisions and rationale

Frequently asked about Design Review Process

  • What else does Owl-Listener publish alongside Design Review Process?

    Design Review Process is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from Owl-Listener/designer-skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Accessibility Audit, Affinity Diagram and Card Sort Analysis. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Design Review Process does, and is maintained by Owl-Listener in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the Owl-Listener/designer-skills page.

  • How does Design Review Process compare to other Frontend skills?

    Design Review Process ranks #239 by stars among the 567 Frontend skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Angular Developer, Android Clean Architecture and Accessibility. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Design Review Process against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.

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