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-# Step 9: Design Direction Mockups
-
-## MANDATORY EXECUTION RULES (READ FIRST):
-
-- 🛑 NEVER generate content without user input
-
-- 📖 CRITICAL: ALWAYS read the complete step file before taking any action - partial understanding leads to incomplete decisions
-- 🔄 CRITICAL: When loading next step with 'C', ensure the entire file is read and understood before proceeding
-- ✅ ALWAYS treat this as collaborative discovery between UX facilitator and stakeholder
-- 📋 YOU ARE A UX FACILITATOR, not a content generator
-- 💬 FOCUS on generating and evaluating design direction variations
-- 🎯 COLLABORATIVE exploration, not assumption-based design
-- ✅ YOU MUST ALWAYS SPEAK OUTPUT In your Agent communication style with the config `{communication_language}`
-
-## EXECUTION PROTOCOLS:
-
-- 🎯 Show your analysis before taking any action
-- ⚠️ Present A/P/C menu after generating design direction content
-- 💾 Generate HTML visualizer for design directions
-- 📖 Update output file frontmatter, adding this step to the end of the list of stepsCompleted.
-- 🚫 FORBIDDEN to load next step until C is selected
-
-## COLLABORATION MENUS (A/P/C):
-
-This step will generate content and present choices:
-
-- **A (Advanced Elicitation)**: Use discovery protocols to develop deeper design insights
-- **P (Party Mode)**: Bring multiple perspectives to evaluate design directions
-- **C (Continue)**: Save the content to the document and proceed to next step
-
-## PROTOCOL INTEGRATION:
-
-- When 'A' selected: Execute {project-root}/_bmad/core/workflows/advanced-elicitation/workflow.xml
-- When 'P' selected: Execute {project-root}/_bmad/core/workflows/party-mode/workflow.md
-- PROTOCOLS always return to this step's A/P/C menu
-- User accepts/rejects protocol changes before proceeding
-
-## CONTEXT BOUNDARIES:
-
-- Current document and frontmatter from previous steps are available
-- Visual foundation from step 8 provides design tokens
-- Core experience from step 7 informs layout and interaction design
-- Focus on exploring different visual design directions
-
-## YOUR TASK:
-
-Generate comprehensive design direction mockups showing different visual approaches for the product.
-
-## DESIGN DIRECTIONS SEQUENCE:
-
-### 1. Generate Design Direction Variations
-
-Create diverse visual explorations:
-"I'll generate 6-8 different design direction variations exploring:
-
-- Different layout approaches and information hierarchy
-- Various interaction patterns and visual weights
-- Alternative color applications from our foundation
-- Different density and spacing approaches
-- Various navigation and component arrangements
-
-Each mockup will show a complete vision for {{project_name}} with all our design decisions applied."
-
-### 2. Create HTML Design Direction Showcase
-
-Generate interactive visual exploration:
-"🎨 Design Direction Mockups Generated!
-
-I'm creating a comprehensive HTML design direction showcase at `{planning_artifacts}/ux-design-directions.html`
-
-**What you'll see:**
-
-- 6-8 full-screen mockup variations
-- Interactive states and hover effects
-- Side-by-side comparison tools
-- Complete UI examples with real content
-- Responsive behavior demonstrations
-
-Each mockup represents a complete visual direction for your app's look and feel."
-
-### 3. Present Design Exploration Framework
-
-Guide evaluation criteria:
-"As you explore the design directions, look for:
-
-✅ **Layout Intuitiveness** - Which information hierarchy matches your priorities?
-✅ **Interaction Style** - Which interaction style fits your core experience?
-✅ **Visual Weight** - Which visual density feels right for your brand?
-✅ **Navigation Approach** - Which navigation pattern matches user expectations?
-✅ **Component Usage** - How well do the components support your user journeys?
-✅ **Brand Alignment** - Which direction best supports your emotional goals?
-
-Take your time exploring - this is a crucial decision that will guide all our design work!"
-
-### 4. Facilitate Design Direction Selection
-
-Help user choose or combine elements:
-"After exploring all the design directions:
-
-**Which approach resonates most with you?**
-
-- Pick a favorite direction as-is
-- Combine elements from multiple directions
-- Request modifications to any direction
-- Use one direction as a base and iterate
-
-**Tell me:**
-
-- Which layout feels most intuitive for your users?
-- Which visual weight matches your brand personality?
-- Which interaction style supports your core experience?
-- Are there elements from different directions you'd like to combine?"
-
-### 5. Document Design Direction Decision
-
-Capture the chosen approach:
-"Based on your exploration, I'm understanding your design direction preference:
-
-**Chosen Direction:** [Direction number or combination]
-**Key Elements:** [Specific elements you liked]
-**Modifications Needed:** [Any changes requested]
-**Rationale:** [Why this direction works for your product]
-
-This will become our design foundation moving forward. Are we ready to lock this in, or do you want to explore variations?"
-
-### 6. Generate Design Direction Content
-
-Prepare the content to append to the document:
-
-#### Content Structure:
-
-When saving to document, append these Level 2 and Level 3 sections:
-
-```markdown
-## Design Direction Decision
-
-### Design Directions Explored
-
-[Summary of design directions explored based on conversation]
-
-### Chosen Direction
-
-[Chosen design direction based on conversation]
-
-### Design Rationale
-
-[Rationale for design direction choice based on conversation]
-
-### Implementation Approach
-
-[Implementation approach based on chosen direction]
-```
-
-### 7. Present Content and Menu
-
-Show the generated design direction content and present choices:
-"I've documented our design direction decision for {{project_name}}. This visual approach will guide all our detailed design work.
-
-**Here's what I'll add to the document:**
-
-[Show the complete markdown content from step 6]
-
-**What would you like to do?**
-[A] Advanced Elicitation - Let's refine our design direction
-[P] Party Mode - Bring different perspectives on visual choices
-[C] Continue - Save this to the document and move to user journey flows
-
-### 8. Handle Menu Selection
-
-#### If 'A' (Advanced Elicitation):
-
-- Execute {project-root}/_bmad/core/workflows/advanced-elicitation/workflow.xml with the current design direction content
-- Process the enhanced design insights that come back
-- Ask user: "Accept these improvements to the design direction? (y/n)"
-- If yes: Update content with improvements, then return to A/P/C menu
-- If no: Keep original content, then return to A/P/C menu
-
-#### If 'P' (Party Mode):
-
-- Execute {project-root}/_bmad/core/workflows/party-mode/workflow.md with the current design direction
-- Process the collaborative design insights that come back
-- Ask user: "Accept these changes to the design direction? (y/n)"
-- If yes: Update content with improvements, then return to A/P/C menu
-- If no: Keep original content, then return to A/P/C menu
-
-#### If 'C' (Continue):
-
-- Append the final content to `{planning_artifacts}/ux-design-specification.md`
-- Update frontmatter: append step to end of stepsCompleted array
-- Load `./step-10-user-journeys.md`
-
-## APPEND TO DOCUMENT:
-
-When user selects 'C', append the content directly to the document using the structure from step 6.
-
-## SUCCESS METRICS:
-
-✅ Multiple design direction variations generated
-✅ HTML showcase created with interactive elements
-✅ Design evaluation criteria clearly established
-✅ User able to explore and compare directions effectively
-✅ Design direction decision made with clear rationale
-✅ A/P/C menu presented and handled correctly
-✅ Content properly appended to document when C selected
-
-## FAILURE MODES:
-
-❌ Not creating enough variation in design directions
-❌ Design directions not aligned with established foundation
-❌ Missing interactive elements in HTML showcase
-❌ Not providing clear evaluation criteria
-❌ Rushing decision without thorough exploration
-❌ Not presenting A/P/C menu after content generation
-❌ Appending content without user selecting 'C'
-
-❌ **CRITICAL**: Reading only partial step file - leads to incomplete understanding and poor decisions
-❌ **CRITICAL**: Proceeding with 'C' without fully reading and understanding the next step file
-❌ **CRITICAL**: Making decisions without complete understanding of step requirements and protocols
-
-## NEXT STEP:
-
-After user selects 'C' and content is saved to document, load `./step-10-user-journeys.md` to design user journey flows.
-
-Remember: Do NOT proceed to step-10 until user explicitly selects 'C' from the A/P/C menu and content is saved!
+# Step 9: Design Direction Mockups
+
+## MANDATORY EXECUTION RULES (READ FIRST):
+
+- 🛑 NEVER generate content without user input
+
+- 📖 CRITICAL: ALWAYS read the complete step file before taking any action - partial understanding leads to incomplete decisions
+- 🔄 CRITICAL: When loading next step with 'C', ensure the entire file is read and understood before proceeding
+- ✅ ALWAYS treat this as collaborative discovery between UX facilitator and stakeholder
+- 📋 YOU ARE A UX FACILITATOR, not a content generator
+- 💬 FOCUS on generating and evaluating design direction variations
+- 🎯 COLLABORATIVE exploration, not assumption-based design
+- ✅ YOU MUST ALWAYS SPEAK OUTPUT In your Agent communication style with the config `{communication_language}`
+
+## EXECUTION PROTOCOLS:
+
+- 🎯 Show your analysis before taking any action
+- ⚠️ Present A/P/C menu after generating design direction content
+- 💾 Generate HTML visualizer for design directions
+- 📖 Update output file frontmatter, adding this step to the end of the list of stepsCompleted.
+- 🚫 FORBIDDEN to load next step until C is selected
+
+## COLLABORATION MENUS (A/P/C):
+
+This step will generate content and present choices:
+
+- **A (Advanced Elicitation)**: Use discovery protocols to develop deeper design insights
+- **P (Party Mode)**: Bring multiple perspectives to evaluate design directions
+- **C (Continue)**: Save the content to the document and proceed to next step
+
+## PROTOCOL INTEGRATION:
+
+- When 'A' selected: Read fully and follow: {project-root}/_bmad/core/workflows/advanced-elicitation/workflow.xml
+- When 'P' selected: Read fully and follow: {project-root}/_bmad/core/workflows/party-mode/workflow.md
+- PROTOCOLS always return to this step's A/P/C menu
+- User accepts/rejects protocol changes before proceeding
+
+## CONTEXT BOUNDARIES:
+
+- Current document and frontmatter from previous steps are available
+- Visual foundation from step 8 provides design tokens
+- Core experience from step 7 informs layout and interaction design
+- Focus on exploring different visual design directions
+
+## YOUR TASK:
+
+Generate comprehensive design direction mockups showing different visual approaches for the product.
+
+## DESIGN DIRECTIONS SEQUENCE:
+
+### 1. Generate Design Direction Variations
+
+Create diverse visual explorations:
+"I'll generate 6-8 different design direction variations exploring:
+
+- Different layout approaches and information hierarchy
+- Various interaction patterns and visual weights
+- Alternative color applications from our foundation
+- Different density and spacing approaches
+- Various navigation and component arrangements
+
+Each mockup will show a complete vision for {{project_name}} with all our design decisions applied."
+
+### 2. Create HTML Design Direction Showcase
+
+Generate interactive visual exploration:
+"🎨 Design Direction Mockups Generated!
+
+I'm creating a comprehensive HTML design direction showcase at `{planning_artifacts}/ux-design-directions.html`
+
+**What you'll see:**
+
+- 6-8 full-screen mockup variations
+- Interactive states and hover effects
+- Side-by-side comparison tools
+- Complete UI examples with real content
+- Responsive behavior demonstrations
+
+Each mockup represents a complete visual direction for your app's look and feel."
+
+### 3. Present Design Exploration Framework
+
+Guide evaluation criteria:
+"As you explore the design directions, look for:
+
+✅ **Layout Intuitiveness** - Which information hierarchy matches your priorities?
+✅ **Interaction Style** - Which interaction style fits your core experience?
+✅ **Visual Weight** - Which visual density feels right for your brand?
+✅ **Navigation Approach** - Which navigation pattern matches user expectations?
+✅ **Component Usage** - How well do the components support your user journeys?
+✅ **Brand Alignment** - Which direction best supports your emotional goals?
+
+Take your time exploring - this is a crucial decision that will guide all our design work!"
+
+### 4. Facilitate Design Direction Selection
+
+Help user choose or combine elements:
+"After exploring all the design directions:
+
+**Which approach resonates most with you?**
+
+- Pick a favorite direction as-is
+- Combine elements from multiple directions
+- Request modifications to any direction
+- Use one direction as a base and iterate
+
+**Tell me:**
+
+- Which layout feels most intuitive for your users?
+- Which visual weight matches your brand personality?
+- Which interaction style supports your core experience?
+- Are there elements from different directions you'd like to combine?"
+
+### 5. Document Design Direction Decision
+
+Capture the chosen approach:
+"Based on your exploration, I'm understanding your design direction preference:
+
+**Chosen Direction:** [Direction number or combination]
+**Key Elements:** [Specific elements you liked]
+**Modifications Needed:** [Any changes requested]
+**Rationale:** [Why this direction works for your product]
+
+This will become our design foundation moving forward. Are we ready to lock this in, or do you want to explore variations?"
+
+### 6. Generate Design Direction Content
+
+Prepare the content to append to the document:
+
+#### Content Structure:
+
+When saving to document, append these Level 2 and Level 3 sections:
+
+```markdown
+## Design Direction Decision
+
+### Design Directions Explored
+
+[Summary of design directions explored based on conversation]
+
+### Chosen Direction
+
+[Chosen design direction based on conversation]
+
+### Design Rationale
+
+[Rationale for design direction choice based on conversation]
+
+### Implementation Approach
+
+[Implementation approach based on chosen direction]
+```
+
+### 7. Present Content and Menu
+
+Show the generated design direction content and present choices:
+"I've documented our design direction decision for {{project_name}}. This visual approach will guide all our detailed design work.
+
+**Here's what I'll add to the document:**
+
+[Show the complete markdown content from step 6]
+
+**What would you like to do?**
+[A] Advanced Elicitation - Let's refine our design direction
+[P] Party Mode - Bring different perspectives on visual choices
+[C] Continue - Save this to the document and move to user journey flows
+
+### 8. Handle Menu Selection
+
+#### If 'A' (Advanced Elicitation):
+
+- Read fully and follow: {project-root}/_bmad/core/workflows/advanced-elicitation/workflow.xml with the current design direction content
+- Process the enhanced design insights that come back
+- Ask user: "Accept these improvements to the design direction? (y/n)"
+- If yes: Update content with improvements, then return to A/P/C menu
+- If no: Keep original content, then return to A/P/C menu
+
+#### If 'P' (Party Mode):
+
+- Read fully and follow: {project-root}/_bmad/core/workflows/party-mode/workflow.md with the current design direction
+- Process the collaborative design insights that come back
+- Ask user: "Accept these changes to the design direction? (y/n)"
+- If yes: Update content with improvements, then return to A/P/C menu
+- If no: Keep original content, then return to A/P/C menu
+
+#### If 'C' (Continue):
+
+- Append the final content to `{planning_artifacts}/ux-design-specification.md`
+- Update frontmatter: append step to end of stepsCompleted array
+- Load `./step-10-user-journeys.md`
+
+## APPEND TO DOCUMENT:
+
+When user selects 'C', append the content directly to the document using the structure from step 6.
+
+## SUCCESS METRICS:
+
+✅ Multiple design direction variations generated
+✅ HTML showcase created with interactive elements
+✅ Design evaluation criteria clearly established
+✅ User able to explore and compare directions effectively
+✅ Design direction decision made with clear rationale
+✅ A/P/C menu presented and handled correctly
+✅ Content properly appended to document when C selected
+
+## FAILURE MODES:
+
+❌ Not creating enough variation in design directions
+❌ Design directions not aligned with established foundation
+❌ Missing interactive elements in HTML showcase
+❌ Not providing clear evaluation criteria
+❌ Rushing decision without thorough exploration
+❌ Not presenting A/P/C menu after content generation
+❌ Appending content without user selecting 'C'
+
+❌ **CRITICAL**: Reading only partial step file - leads to incomplete understanding and poor decisions
+❌ **CRITICAL**: Proceeding with 'C' without fully reading and understanding the next step file
+❌ **CRITICAL**: Making decisions without complete understanding of step requirements and protocols
+
+## NEXT STEP:
+
+After user selects 'C' and content is saved to document, load `./step-10-user-journeys.md` to design user journey flows.
+
+Remember: Do NOT proceed to step-10 until user explicitly selects 'C' from the A/P/C menu and content is saved!