grill-me
julianoczkowski/designer-skills
Relentlessly interview users about plans and designs to stress-test thinking and reach shared understanding.
What is grill-me?
Grill-me conducts in-depth interviews about a user's plan or design, systematically exploring each decision branch until reaching shared understanding. Use it when you want to stress-test an approach, challenge assumptions, or think through a design thoroughly.
- Asks probing questions about every aspect of a plan or design
- Walks through decision trees systematically, resolving dependencies one by one
- Checks the codebase and existing components before asking clarifying questions
- Provides recommended answers for each question
- Helps identify gaps, contradictions, and unconsidered implications
How to install grill-me
npx skills add https://github.com/julianoczkowski/designer-skills --skill grill-meHow to use grill-me
- 1.Describe your plan or design to the agent
- 2.Ask the agent to 'grill me' or mention you want to stress-test your thinking
- 3.Answer the agent's probing questions honestly
- 4.Review the agent's recommended answers and reasoning
- 5.Iterate on your plan based on gaps and insights uncovered
Use cases
- Stress-testing a landing page concept before development
- Challenging and refining a dashboard design for team metrics
- Thinking through a settings page interaction model
- Validating assumptions in a portfolio site structure
- Exploring edge cases and dependencies in a design approach
- Product designers
- UX researchers
- Product managers
- Engineers designing systems
- Anyone planning a significant feature or product
grill-me FAQ
Use it when you want to stress-test a plan, challenge your own thinking, validate a design approach, or explore edge cases before committing to implementation.
No. The agent checks your codebase and existing components first, and only asks you questions that require your input or decision-making.
The agent walks through each branch of your decision tree systematically, exploring dependencies between decisions until reaching shared understanding of the full design.
The recommendations are suggestions to help you think critically. You can accept, reject, or refine them based on your context and constraints.
Full instructions (SKILL.md)
Source of truth, from julianoczkowski/designer-skills.
name: grill-me description: Interview the user relentlessly about a plan or design until reaching shared understanding, resolving each branch of the decision tree. Use when user wants to stress-test a plan, get grilled on their design, challenge an approach, or mentions "grill me".
Example prompts
- "Grill me on this landing page idea"
- "I want to build a dashboard for tracking team metrics. Challenge my thinking."
- "Stress-test my approach to this settings page"
- "I have a rough idea for a portfolio site. Help me think it through."
Instructions
Interview me relentlessly about every aspect of this plan until we reach a shared understanding. Walk down each branch of the design tree, resolving dependencies between decisions one by one.
If a question can be answered by exploring the codebase, explore the codebase instead of asking me.
If a question can be answered by examining existing components, styles, or design tokens in the project, examine them instead of asking me.
For each question, provide your recommended answer.
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