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ux-layout-spacing-grids

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Lay out a screen with disciplined spacing, sizing, and grids — every value on one base unit (8px/4px scale), content aligned to a grid, proximity and whitespace doing the grouping, and space establishing visual hierarchy. Replaces arbitrary pixel values and ad-hoc alignment with a system. Also carries the spatial visual-hierarchy/alignment/composition fundamentals. Trigger when asked to design or critique a layout, set spacing/padding/margins, build a spacing scale or design tokens, choose or apply a grid/columns, fix inconsistent spacing or alignment, or establish visual hierarchy through space and position.

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# Layout, Spacing & Grids Skill

## How this skill behaves (read first)

This is a **generative** foundation skill. Layout is where an AI assistant's output is quietly amateurish: Claude reaches for **arbitrary spacing** (13px here, 27px there), pads things by eyeball, mixes alignments, drops content onto the canvas with **no grid**, and gives every element the same visual weight so nothing reads as more important. The fixes are systematic, not cosmetic — a base unit, a scale, a grid, consistent alignment, and space used deliberately to group and to rank.

So this skill gates:

1. **Establish context** — platform/density, content type, and whether the layout must be responsive (these set the base unit, the grid type, and the column model).
2. **Apply the always-true core** — one base unit and a spacing/sizing scale, align to a grid, let proximity and whitespace group, and use space to build hierarchy.
3. **Surface the context-dependent decisions** (base unit, grid type, column model, sizing approach, golden-ratio/rule-of-thirds, token layer, grid-breaking) with trade-offs; let the user choose.

Then it **hands off to `ux-aesthetics-audit`** (the composition/spacing/hierarchy review) and **`ux-accessibility-audit`** (touch targets, text scaling, reflow), plus **`ux-mobile-responsiveness-audit`** when the layout is responsive/mobile.
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