ui-ux-governance

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2If activation mode is explicit and this request names neither Aegis nor this
3skill, return to the fast path without this workflow's rules or ceremony.
4Explicit invocation proceeds normally.
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7# UI/UX Governance
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9## Purpose and ownership
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11Apply experience rules as a compositional skill. Keep design approval,
12implementation, review dispatch, and completion with the existing task owner.
13For direct requests, deliver the requested scoped design/review; authorized
14implementation continues through its appropriate workflow.
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16**Core principle:** Under an equivalent user goal and accepted requirements,
17prefer lower total user effort while preserving accessibility, informed
18control, and necessary safeguards. Consider understanding, decisions,
19operations, waiting, and recovery; click count alone is insufficient.
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21Project requirements, design systems, and accepted references define the
22product. This skill supplies portable decision and evidence discipline, not
23fixed styles, a framework, a universal visual grade, or runtime authority.
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25## Default path
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271. Identify the affected user task, current phase, and actual user-facing delta.
28   Preserve the primary workflow. Internal backend changes without an effect
29   on interface behavior, displayed information, or recovery do not apply.
302. Read the smallest existing requirement/design/component evidence. Reuse
31   accepted patterns. Surface missing decision-changing requirements; resolve
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