CritiqueDeck
An AI design-critique partner that reviews your dashboard or product-cards screenshot using the same density, context-menu, and widget-spacing principles from the Linear/Vercel playbook.
Product designers and PMs building internal tools or admin dashboards
- Screenshot critique scored on density, affordance, and scan-order heuristics
- Annotated before/after of card and widget regions
- Side-by-side comparison against a curated reference library of high-density UIs
- Export a one-page critique PDF for sharing in design review
Rauno's design journal is unusually candid about failed widget attempts; designers want the same level of in-the-trenches feedback without scheduling a senior reviewer.
HN design-journal posts historically correlate with spikes in designer side-project tools (Polypane, Mobbin)Design Critique - Free AI-Powered Design Analysis & Feedback ↗
Visual critique tools exist for marketing pages but few target dashboard-density specificallyDesign Critique - Free AI-Powered Design Analysis & Feedback ↗
Designers buy premium Figma plugins at $10–15/mo; team seats pricing is viableDesign Critique - Free AI-Powered Design Analysis & Feedback ↗
Dashboard UX patterns evolve quickly so the critique library needs frequent refresh
Screenshot critique is a strong vision-LLM use case shipping in days, not months