A seven-step process an AI coding agent runs from brief to reviewed interface. Three real directions before a single line of production CSS. An artifact on disk at every step. Two places where it stops and a person decides.
Subject, audience, and the one job this screen must do.
How finished it needs to be. The first real design decision.
Structure only — deliberately unfinished so reviewers judge layout.
Three genuinely different renders. Never a written menu.
Colour derived from real assets, never invented. Then code.
Every animation earns its place — or gets refused, in writing.
Scored, floored, fixed one commit at a time.
STATUS.md is the page for everyone else — which step is done, which is waiting, who on, and a link to every artifact. Written for the person paying for the work, not for the person doing it.