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feat(design-review): add Phase 7 - Thinking Fast and Slow - Cognitive Load (S1/S2) audit - #696

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Summary

  • Adds Phase 7: Cognitive Load (S1/S2) to /design-review, inserted between Phase 6 (Compile Report) and the existing Triage phase
  • Every audited screen gets rated on a System 1 ↔ System 2 scale (0-10), grounded in browse data already collected (snapshot -i, links, perf)
  • Screens scoring above 3 that aren't intentional friction get flagged with specific UX law violations (Fitts, Hick, Jakob, Miller, Peak-End, Von Restorff, Zeigarnik, Gestalt, Motivation) and the measurement that proves it
  • Results displayed as ASCII slider, included in the Phase 11 report
  • Renumbers existing phases 7-11 → 8-12 and updates all cross-references (sub-steps, Additional Rules)

Example output

Landing         S1 |--●-------| S2  [2/10]  ✓
Onboarding      S1 |-●--------| S2  [1/10]  ✓
Dashboard       S1 |-------●--| S2  [7/10]  ✗ Hick (31 items, no filter), Miller (93 data points), Gestalt (no grouping)
Settings        S1 |----●-----| S2  [4/10]  ✗ Hick (23 toggles on one page)
Delete Account  S1 |--------●-| S2  [8/10]  ✓ (intentional friction)

Test plan

  • Run /design-review on a live site and verify Phase 7 produces the S1/S2 slider
  • Confirm subsequent phases (8-12) execute correctly with renumbered references
  • Verify the cognitive load section appears in the Phase 11 report output

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Every audited screen gets rated on a System 1 / System 2 scale (0-10),
grounded in browse data already collected. Screens scoring above 3 that
aren't intentional friction get flagged with specific UX law violations
(Fitts, Hick, Jakob, Miller, Peak-End, Von Restorff, Zeigarnik, Gestalt,
Motivation) and the measurement that proves it. Displayed as ASCII slider.

Renumbers existing phases 7-11 to 8-12 and updates all cross-references.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
@MaruPelkar MaruPelkar changed the title feat(design-review): add Phase 7 Cognitive Load (S1/S2) audit feat(design-review): add Phase 7 - Thinking Fast and Slow - Cognitive Load (S1/S2) audit Mar 31, 2026
time-attack pushed a commit to time-attack/gstack that referenced this pull request Jul 14, 2026
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Every audited screen gets rated on a System 1 / System 2 scale (0-10),
grounded in browse data already collected. Screens scoring above 3 that
aren't intentional friction get flagged with specific UX law violations
(Fitts, Hick, Jakob, Miller, Peak-End, Von Restorff, Zeigarnik, Gestalt,
Motivation) and the measurement that proves it. Displayed as ASCII slider.

Hand-ported as Phase 6.5 (no renumbering of existing phases 7-11; the
PR's mechanical renumber broke the pinned 8e.5 regression-test heading
and the /qa Phase 8e.5 cross-reference). Report reference corrected to
the Phase 10 report.
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Thanks for this. The proposed S1/S2 scale and universal threshold are not validated, raw counts do not establish named UX-law violations, and a phase cross-reference is broken; please replace the rubric with measurable evidence rules, repair references, and add controlled evaluations.

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