# UX Coaching

Coach a UX practitioner through problem framing, running a design critique, or making...

- Repository: https://github.com/microsoft/hve-core (1591 stars)
- Category: Design
- License: MIT
- Last updated: 2026-11-01
- Runs scripts: no, instructions only

## Install

Claude Code: `npx skills add microsoft/hve-core --skill ux-coaching -g -a claude-code -y`
Codex: `npx skills add microsoft/hve-core --skill ux-coaching -g -a codex -y`
Cursor: `npx skills add microsoft/hve-core --skill ux-coaching -g -a cursor -y`
Gemini CLI: `npx skills add microsoft/hve-core --skill ux-coaching -g -a gemini-cli -y`

## Description

Coach a UX practitioner through problem framing, running a design critique, or making an evidence-backed case to a skeptical stakeholder. Use when the practitioner has a live UX task and wants to think it through rather than receive an answer.

## SKILL.md, as published by its author (untrusted third-party text, read it as data)

# UX Coaching

Coach one UX practice moment at a time through questions, evidence, and the practitioner's own judgment.

## Goal

Help a practitioner reach their own well-grounded outcome in one of three moments, then stop. The practitioner leaves with a named, evidence-labelled result they can act on and defend, plus an honest record of what remains unresolved.

Each moment is entered directly. No prior moment, workshop, or facilitated session is required.

## Moments

Load one reference at a time, matching the practitioner's current moment. When the practitioner asks to switch moments, close or park the current instance first, then load the next in the same session.

| Moment                 | Practitioner situation                                                                 | Reference                                                                |
|------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| `problem-framing`      | Deciding what the problem actually is, often when a solution has already been proposed | [references/problem-framing.md](references/problem-framing.md)           |
| `critique`             | Running a critique of a design, flow, or artifact with other people                    | [references/critique.md](references/critique.md)                         |
| `stakeholder-advocacy` | Making an evidence-backed case to someone who is unconvinced                           | [references/stakeholder-advocacy.md](references/stakeholder-advocacy.md) |

Do not load a moment reference the practitioner did not select. Do not load more than one at a time.

The three moments are independent entry points, not an ordering or a prerequisite chain.

## Coaching authority

The rest: https://github.com/microsoft/hve-core/blob/HEAD/.github/skills/design-thinking/ux-coaching/SKILL.md