creative-director

A catalogue entry for an AI creative-director skill, curated from @smixs, that brings structured creative ideation and critique into the Open Design environment. At its core it advertises an approach combining recursive self-assessment, 20+ ideation methodologies (including SIT, TRIZ, Bisociation, SCAMPER, and Synectics), a three-axis evaluation calibrated against awards benchmarks such as Cannes, D&AD, and HumanKind, and a five-phase process running from brief to presentation. It responds to triggers like creative director, campaign concept, creative critique, cannes review, and scamper.

Within Open Design's orchestration mode, the skill acts as the design-flow director rather than a single polish checklist. It first defines what good-looking means for the task (audience, product goal, brand posture, style references, information density, typography, palette, motion tone, and asset needs) while naming explicit anti-patterns such as generic AI gradients, empty cards, vague copy, and template symmetry. It then inspects the current target (an HTML element, browser tab, design file, active design system, image, or project folder) and searches across every available Open Design resource: skills, plugins, MCP servers and templates, connectors, design files, the active browser context, and user-provided assets.

From there it matches resources into a staged workflow with lanes such as critique, style-direction selection, visual asset generation, motion, data or proof grounding, implementation polish, responsive and accessibility hardening, and final verification. When the target or aesthetic bar is ambiguous, it presents a small guided choice set with a recommended default and continues rather than stopping at a generic question; when the ideal resource is not configured, it explains the need and guides setup or falls back to the closest alternative, marking the tradeoff. The entry links the upstream GitHub bundle and notes that running the full original workflow requires installing that bundle into the active agent's skills directory, after which the skill is invoked by name or via its trigger phrases.