Design Recomendations
Design Recommendations reviews your current project and provides specific, actionable feedback on how to improve it. Think of it as a senior designer reviewing your work — it identifies issues, explains why they matter, and suggests what to change.
This specialty focuses on advice, not action. It tells you what to improve, but doesn't make changes to your project directly. To apply its suggestions, you can either make the edits yourself or hand them off to the Builder Agent.
Note: This specialty is only available when you have a PLAY project open in the editor. It requires access to your project data to work.
What It Evaluates
Design Recommendations covers a wide range of design dimensions. When you ask for feedback, it may address any combination of the following depending on your project.
Layout and Structure
Visual hierarchy, focal points, alignment, spacing, margins, padding, white space balance, content clipping, and overall composition. The assistant identifies when elements compete for attention, when spacing feels uneven, or when the layout doesn't guide the user's eye in the right direction.
Typography
Font usage, text sizing and hierarchy, text alignment, readability, and text density. It flags issues like too many font styles, text that's too small to read, or dense blocks of copy that slow the user down.
Color and Contrast
Text contrast, background contrast, saturation, color hierarchy, accent color usage, and palette consistency. It can identify when text is hard to read against its background, when too many colors compete, or when there's no clear primary color anchoring the design.
Imagery and Assets
Image quality, asset consistency, stretched or distorted images, and mismatched styles. It flags when assets look out of place or when image quality undermines the overall design.
CTAs
CTA visibility, placement, emphasis, quantity, and contrast against the background. It checks whether your CTA stands out, whether it's positioned where users expect it, and whether the design makes the next step obvious.
Clarity and Communication
Messaging clarity, user guidance, and next-step legibility. It identifies when the user might not know what to do, when messaging is unclear, or when the flow between scenes lacks direction.
Playable Best Practices
End card transitions, opening hooks, tutorial presence, sense of challenge or reward, and load time considerations. These are playable-specific patterns that affect engagement beyond pure visual design.
How to Use It
Open CRAFTSMAN INTELLIGENCE and describe what kind of feedback you want. You can ask for a broad review or focus on a specific area.
For a general review, keep your prompt open-ended. The assistant will evaluate your project across all relevant dimensions and prioritize the most impactful issues.
"Review this design and suggest improvements."
For targeted feedback, mention the specific area you're concerned about. This helps the assistant focus its response.
"How can I improve the typography hierarchy in this layout?"
"Is my CTA visible enough against this background?"
Template Prompts
Click the Design Recommendations card in the chat panel to see template prompts you can send with a single click:
Review this design and suggest improvements.
Am I missing any best practices?
How can I make my project more engaging?
Suggest improvements to all of my text layers.
Does this project adhere to my Brand Guidelines?
Tips
Start broad, then go specific. Ask for a general review first, then follow up on the areas that matter most to your project.
Upload brand assets early. If you have brand guidelines, upload them before asking for feedback so the assistant can factor them in from the start.
Pair with the Builder Agent. Once you get a recommendation you agree with, tell the Builder Agent to implement it. For example: "The Design Recommendations specialty suggested increasing CTA contrast — can you make the CTA button white with dark text?"
Revisit after edits. After making changes, ask for another round of feedback to catch anything new or confirm the improvements landed.
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