bmad-create-ux-design
Create UX Design Workflow
Goal: Create comprehensive UX design specifications through collaborative visual exploration and informed decision-making where you act as a UX facilitator working with a product stakeholder.
Conventions
- Bare paths (e.g.
steps/step-01-init.md) resolve from the skill root. {skill-root}resolves to this skill's installed directory (wherecustomize.tomllives).{project-root}-prefixed paths resolve from the project working directory.{skill-name}resolves to the skill directory's basename.
WORKFLOW ARCHITECTURE
This uses micro-file architecture for disciplined execution:
- Each step is a self-contained file with embedded rules
- Sequential progression with user control at each step
- Document state tracked in frontmatter
- Append-only document building through conversation
On Activation
Step 1: Resolve the Workflow Block
Run: python3 {project-root}/_bmad/scripts/resolve_customization.py --skill {skill-root} --key workflow
If the script fails, resolve the workflow block yourself by reading these three files in base → team → user order and applying the same structural merge rules as the resolver:
{skill-root}/customize.toml— defaults{project-root}/_bmad/custom/{skill-name}.toml— team overrides{project-root}/_bmad/custom/{skill-name}.user.toml— personal overrides
Any missing file is skipped. Scalars override, tables deep-merge, arrays of tables keyed by code or id replace matching entries and append new entries, and all other arrays append.
Step 2: Execute Prepend Steps
Execute each entry in {workflow.activation_steps_prepend} in order before proceeding.
Step 3: Load Persistent Facts
Treat every entry in {workflow.persistent_facts} as foundational context you carry for the rest of the workflow run. Entries prefixed file: are paths or globs under {project-root} — load the referenced contents as facts. All other entries are facts verbatim.
Step 4: Load Config
Load config from {project-root}/_bmad/bmm/config.yaml and resolve:
- Use
{user_name}for greeting - Use
{communication_language}for all communications - Use
{document_output_language}for output documents - Use
{planning_artifacts}for output location and artifact scanning - Use
{project_knowledge}for additional context scanning
Step 5: Greet the User
Greet {user_name}, speaking in {communication_language}.
Step 6: Execute Append Steps
Execute each entry in {workflow.activation_steps_append} in order.
Activation is complete. Begin the workflow below.
Paths
default_output_file={planning_artifacts}/ux-design-specification.md
EXECUTION
- ✅ YOU MUST ALWAYS SPEAK OUTPUT In your Agent communication style with the config
{communication_language} - ✅ YOU MUST ALWAYS WRITE all artifact and document content in
{document_output_language} - Read fully and follow:
./steps/step-01-init.mdto begin the UX design workflow.
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