UI DESIGN SPEC
Audit of this page 0.0 / 98

AI-executable UI review standard / 50 rules / 98 points

This page is being graded as you read.

A review standard written for AI agents: every rule carries evidence requirements, a confidence model, and engineering tolerances. No taste debates. Deductions you can defend.

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Rules across 9 dimensions
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This page, scored against itself

98 points,
allocated by risk.

Eight scored dimensions split a fixed budget. The bar is the argument: visual stability, consistency and color carry more weight than information architecture, because that is where interfaces actually break. Hover a segment.

0segment width = dimension weight98 pts + 2 reserved

Every deduction
is arithmetic.

No vibes-based scoring. A finding is severity × confidence × rule weight. Weak evidence gets multiplied down to 0.15, not argued about. Pick a weight, pick a cell.

1 · Rule weight (max deduction)
2 · Severity × Confidence
Points deducted
-1.80

First, know what
you are looking at.

Step zero of every audit is classification. A dashboard is not judged like a landing page; a CTA rule makes no sense on documentation. Six archetypes gate which rules apply.

Nine dimensions.
Fifty rules.

The full rulebook, with each rule's class and maximum deduction. Objective defects score hard; heuristics score with care; advisories never touch the number.

Ten laws this spec
refuses to enforce.

Most review checklists fail by enforcing folklore as law. This one names the folklore and strikes it out. These may surface as advisories in context, never as universal defects.

Six passes,
evidence first.

An agent runs the spec as a pipeline: map the page semantically before judging it, collect proof before deducting, sandbox interactions so the audit cannot break the page it is auditing.

Drag / scroll sideways

The line sits at 70.

Scores map to six grades. Everything left of the needle ships; everything right of it goes back. The needle is not negotiable, that is the point of having one.

Scored against
itself.

A standard that cannot survive its own rules is an opinion. This page was audited with its own pipeline: semantic mapping, three breakpoints, DOM extraction, interaction checks. The receipt is on the right.

AUDIT PASSED · GRADE A
UI Design Spec · spec and page by Ellie Wang Set in Archivo and Geist Mono