design-rhythm-and-pattern
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Repair inconsistent visual repetition and pattern across UI cards, icons, spacing, backgrounds and pages while preserving salience and avoiding overwhelming decorative rhythm.
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Use this specialist when the actual task involves rhythm issues.
- Very specific: line 20
Read references/playbook.md for exact discriminating checks, implementation examples, tradeoffs and acceptance tests.
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Rhythm and pattern
Scope
Use this specialist when the actual task involves rhythm issues. Check documented brand/system decisions before prescribing changes. Do not conflate taste with accessibility standards or make assumptions from screenshots alone.
Affecting category: rhythm. Related governing principles: pattern, unity. Route from design-diagnose or design-review when observations match this category, or load directly during a focused implementation.
Procedure
- inconsistent-components: Consolidate component styles and spacing into semantic tokens; permit role-based variants only. Verify: Comparison of three pages reveals consistent role treatments.
- wall-of-identical-cards: Preserve component system but vary content weight/featured layout for genuinely different priority. Verify: Viewer can find featured item in a short scanning task.
- pattern-overpowers-content: Reduce scale/opacity and remove texture behind readable content; avoid visual flicker. Verify: Body/controls remain legible and attention goes to content, not motif.
Read references/playbook.md for exact discriminating checks, implementation examples, tradeoffs and acceptance tests. Keep the fix within the existing component architecture. Report original observation, selected recipe and evidence. For usability, engage ux-*; for normative accessibility, engage wcag-*.
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