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Design Debt Audit inventories and prioritizes accumulated design inconsistencies across a product so teams can plan remediation. Use it before redesigns or when UI drift, accessibility gaps, and structural debt have built up.

Design Impact Reporting measures and communicates design's contribution to business and user outcomes in stakeholder language. Use it when reporting results upward to leadership or cross-functional partners.

Design QA Checklist builds a systematic checklist for verifying that a build matches the design specification, used at implementation review.

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 Sprint Plan plans and facilitates structured design sprints that take teams from challenge framing to tested prototype in a focused week. Use it for classic 5-day, mini, remote, or discovery sprints when you need to compress discovery and alignment into days.

Design System Governance defines ownership, contribution, versioning, deprecation, and breaking-change processes so multiple teams can evolve a design system without fragmentation. Use it to establish or refine how changes are proposed, reviewed, and released.

Design Token defines and organises design tokens for color, spacing, type, and elevation with naming and usage rules. Use it when establishing the token layer.

Diary Study Plan designs a longitudinal diary study with prompts, cadence, duration, participant criteria, and an analysis framework. Use it when user behavior unfolds over days or weeks and you need in-context, in-the-moment data.

Empathy Map builds a Says, Thinks, Does, Feels map for one user or segment, used to share user understanding quickly. It helps align teams around synthesized user research and identify goals, pain points, and design insights.

Handoff Spec writes implementation handoffs with measurements, behaviors, assets, states, and edge cases so developers can build a design accurately.

Interview Script creates a structured user interview script for qualitative research, covering introduction, warm-up, core exploration, specific scenarios, and wrap-up. Use it before running interviews to get non-leading, open-ended questions, probing techniques, and facilitator notes.

Jobs to Be Done maps functional, emotional, and social jobs with outcome expectations to understand user motivations. Use it to reframe decisions around motivation rather than features.