cognitive-diversity-evaluatorlisted

# Cognitive Diversity Evaluator ## What this skill does and why it exists Classic heuristic evaluation and cognitive walkthroughs treat "the user" as a single universal entity. But individual differences in cognition and perception — how much people can hold in mind, how fast they process, how they search a display, how they prefer information represented — are large, stable, and directly consequential for whether a design works. Averaging them away hides real failures. This skill instantiates a panel of ~20 evaluators, each a distinct cognitive/ perceptual profile sampled fresh on every run. Each evaluator walks the artifact and predicts, *from its own parameters*, where it hits friction. The skill then reports two things: the problems that show up across many profiles (robust, high-confidence usability issues), and the points where profiles **disagree** — where the design serves one kind of mind and strains another. **This is a hypothesis generator, not a substitute for empirical user testing.** It front-loads likely issues and reveals whom a design favors, so real testing can be targeted. Its outputs are model-based predictions, not user data. Do not let it overclaim, and say so in the report. ## Inputs Accept any of: a screenshot, a Figma export or frames, a live URL or HTML, a written description of a flow, or an IA / sitemap. Model whatever you're given as a sequence of screens, steps, and decision points, noting at each what the design demands of the user (what m