refine-design

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• Refine a design
• 1. Name the pass and the scope
• 2. Read the incumbent
• 3. Run the pass
• 4. Hold the scope
• 5. Verify
• 6. Finish
• Sources

Refinement preserves and redesign replaces. A refinement keeps the incumbent identity, behaviour, copy and everything outside its scope. Building a new direction is the design builder's job, such as the frontend-design skill a website vendors, and the person chooses a direction before a refinement starts. When the concept itself is wrong, say so and recommend a redesign, rather than polishing a look the person should discard or quietly designing another direction. Pick one pass from the table, and ask once when two fit. | Pass | Job | Pull | | --- | --- | --- | | critique | Evidence-backed findings and their priority, with no edits | the visitor-job reference | | polish | Finish what exists to one quality bar across the whole path | the typography reference and the motion reference for those defects | | clarify | Make the interface text say what happened and what to do next | the interface-copy reference | | adapt | Make the target work at another size or input | the mobile-web reference | | harden | Make it survive real content, languages, errors and networks | the stress-test-content skill | | bolder | Raise one flat section to the conviction its neighbours have | the system the

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