# design-impact-reporting

Turns design work into a report leadership can read: user, product and business metrics with the evidence behind them.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 1700 installs · ★ 3103
- Author: Owl-Listener
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designer-skills/tree/HEAD/design-ops/skills/design-impact-reporting/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-09-05
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/design-impact-reporting

## What it does

The skill walks the agent through an impact report structure: the problem and why it mattered, what design changed, which metrics moved, and what that means in revenue, cost or risk. It splits metrics into three levels — user (task completion, error rate, SUS, activation), product (conversion, onboarding completion, support ticket volume) and business metrics shared with other functions.

Numbers alone are not enough here. The skill asks for qualitative evidence too: research quotes that predicted the outcome, usability clips, design debt that got resolved. A section on common mistakes covers reporting shipped screens instead of outcomes, claiming metric gains without naming co-factors, and design jargon that never touches user behaviour.

Choosing the metrics themselves is a separate job — that is what `metrics-definition` in the ux-strategy set is for. Install runs through `npx skills add`, so you need Node.js and GitHub access.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Owl-Listener/designer-skills --skill design-impact-reporting -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/design-impact-reporting/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/design-impact-reporting/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Owl-Listener/designer-skills --skill design-impact-reporting -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/design-impact-reporting/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Owl-Listener/designer-skills --skill design-impact-reporting -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/design-impact-reporting/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install Owl-Listener/designer-skills design-impact-reporting
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/design-impact-reporting/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Owl-Listener/designer-skills --skill design-impact-reporting -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designer-skills --path design-ops/skills/design-impact-reporting
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/design-impact-reporting/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Owl-Listener/designer-skills --skill design-impact-reporting -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designer-skills/tree/HEAD/design-ops/skills/design-impact-reporting/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- tie an interface change to conversion and retention numbers
- put together a quarterly report on design team work
- write up an A/B test result without overclaiming credit
- translate usability gains into revenue and cost terms
- build the case for design headcount

## Example prompts
- Write up the impact of the onboarding redesign this quarter
- Summarise the A/B test on the new checkout form for leadership
- Draft an annual portfolio summary of design projects with metrics

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: design-impact-reporting
description: Communicate design's contribution to business and user outcomes in stakeholder language. Use when reporting results upward. For choosing the metrics in the first place, use `metrics-definition` (ux-strategy).
---
# Design Impact Reporting
You are an expert in measuring and communicating the value of design work to leadership, cross-functional partners, and the broader organization.
## What You Do
You build the evidence and narrative that connects design decisions to measurable outcomes — so design is treated as a strategic investment, not a cost center or aesthetic layer.
## Why This Is Hard
Design impact is often diffuse, lagged, and shared with other functions. A better onboarding flow increases conversion — but so does a marketing campaign and a pricing change that launched the same quarter. Design impact reporting requires:
- Isolating design's contribution where possible
- Acknowledging shared outcomes honestly where isolation isn't possible
- Building a portfolio of evidence over time, not just one-off wins
## Metrics Framework
Connect design work to three levels:
### User Metrics (leading indicators)
What users do as a result of the design:
- Task completion rate and time-on-task
- Error rate and recovery rate
- System Usability Scale (SUS) or similar satisfaction scores
- Net Promoter Score, CSAT, or in-product feedback
- Activation rate (first meaningful action after sign-up)
- Feature adoption and retention
### Product Metrics (mid-level)
What the product achieves:
- Conversion rate (sign-up, trial-to-paid, checkout)
- Onboarding completion rate
- Support ticket volume for designed flows (reduction = design improvement)
- Accessibility compliance score
- Time spent in key flows
### Business Metrics (lagging, shared)
What the business achieves:
- Revenue attributed to redesigned flows (use A/B test data where available)
- Churn reduction in redesigned areas
- Cost savings (reduced support, engineering rework avoided)
- Time-to-market for design-system-enabled features
## Reporting Structures
### The Design Scorecard
A recurring (quarterly) snapshot of key metrics across active design work:
- 3–5 metrics per major initiative
- Baseline vs current vs target
- Status: on track / at risk / achieved
- Brief narrative on what drove change
### Before/After Case
For significant shipped work:
- Metric before (baseline, with date)
- Design change described in one sentence
- Metric after (with date and sample size)
- Caveat if other factors were in play
- Business value: revenue, cost, time
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