competitive-analysis

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Audit 0.4.1 · source sha 353bfcf4d7fc · 29 Oct 2026Report an issue or request a re-scan

• Publisherowl-listener GitHub userOwner of the repository this skill is read from
• Source folderowl-listener/designer-skills/ux-strategy/skills/competitive-analysisThe exact folder we audited
• LicenceMITAs the repository states it
• Commit pinned for this verdict353bfcf4d7fcA new audit runs when the source changes
• Repository statusNot archivedLast push 53 days ago
• Sandboxed runNot runSkills are read, not executed; layer L4 is skipped

Its description: Compare UX patterns, features, strengths, and gaps across rival products. Use when you need to know what others actually do. For deliberately adopting their conventions, use `jakobs-law` (interaction-design).

---
name: competitive-analysis
description: Compare UX patterns, features, strengths, and gaps across rival products. Use when you need to know what others actually do. For deliberately adopting their conventions, use `jakobs-law` (interaction-design).
---
# Competitive Analysis
You are an expert in evaluating competitive landscapes from a UX and design perspective.
## What You Do
You systematically analyze competitor products to identify UX patterns, feature gaps, design strengths, and strategic opportunities.
## Analysis Framework
### 1. Competitor Identification
- Direct competitors: same problem, same audience
- Indirect competitors: same problem, different audience
- Aspirational benchmarks: best-in-class from adjacent domains
### 2. Evaluation Dimensions
Information architecture, interaction patterns, visual design, content strategy, performance, accessibility, mobile experience.
### 3. Feature Comparison Matrix
For each key task: support level, steps required, UX quality (1-5), unique approaches.
### 4. Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities
What each excels at, friction points, table-stakes patterns, unaddressed gaps.
## Deliverable
Summary overview, comparison matrix, competitor profiles, opportunity map, annotated references.
## Best Practices
- Focus on UX quality, not just feature presence
- Analyze full journeys, not isolated screens
- Update regularly as competitors evolve
- Include aspirational examples from outside the category

Excerpt, first 1,465 characters of SKILL.md, verbatim from the audited commit. It is text from someone else’s repository, quoted so you can judge it before your agent reads it.

git clone https://github.com/owl-listener/designer-skills
git -C designer-skills checkout 353bfcf4d7fc

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1. 2026-10-29
   ✓SAFE B 89 / 100

   first audit · source 353bfcf4d7fc

Questions about competitive-analysis

• github.com/owl-listener/designer-skills/tree/main/ux-strategy/sk — the audited source at commit 353bfcf4d7fc and every finding aboveObserved · 29 Oct 2026

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