# Design Award Match

Match a design project to supported design-award programs, tracks, and entry...

- Repository: https://github.com/SeanJ1ang/design-judge-skills (711 stars)
- Category: Design
- License: Apache-2.0
- Last updated: 2026-08-24
- Runs scripts: yes, review before use

## Install

Claude Code: `npx skills add SeanJ1ang/design-judge-skills --skill design-award-match -g -a claude-code -y`
Codex: `npx skills add SeanJ1ang/design-judge-skills --skill design-award-match -g -a codex -y`
Cursor: `npx skills add SeanJ1ang/design-judge-skills --skill design-award-match -g -a cursor -y`
Gemini CLI: `npx skills add SeanJ1ang/design-judge-skills --skill design-award-match -g -a gemini-cli -y`

## Description

Match a design project to supported design-award programs, tracks, and entry categories; apply structural eligibility gates; verify current official rules; compare published criteria and cautiously described winner trends; and output fit, evidence confidence, and submission priority. Use when a user asks which award or category to enter, compares awards, or requests an award-fit analysis. Supports iF, iF Student, Red Dot Product, Red Dot Design Concept, IDEA, DIA, K-Design, GOOD DESIGN AWARD Japan, Core77, James Dyson, and EPDA. Do not use for winner retrieval alone, detailed submission-file compliance, general design evaluation, optimization, or winning-probability prediction.

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

# Design Award Match

## Purpose

Identify the most defensible award, program, track, and category for a design project. Treat fit scores as transparent decision aids, never as probabilities of winning.

## Scope

- Extract decision-relevant project facts.
- Pre-filter the configured award allowlist with stable eligibility gates.
- Verify all dynamic requirements on current official pages.
- Compare project evidence with published criteria and observable winner trends.
- Score, rank, and explain strategic fit.
- Stop after recommendation; do not audit every submission file or redesign the project.

Use `$design-award-search` for verified same-category winners. Route file format, size, naming, declarations, and upload completeness to `$design-submission-check`.

## Input Contract

Accept a brief, images, PDF, portfolio page, or structured JSON. Extract or request only facts that can change the recommendation:

- primary function, target user, and use context;
- innovation and supporting evidence;
- project state and completion, launch, or release date;
- applicant type, student status, country or region;
- candidate awards, intended cycle, budget, and geographic constraints.

Use the canonical values in [references/category-crosswalk.json](references/category-crosswalk.json). If the primary function is unclear, ask one short question. If an eligibility fact is missing, continue with `Eligibility: Unknown`; never assume a pass.

Offer this template when the user asks how to use the skill:

```text
Project: {name and one-sentence description}
Primary function: {job performed or problem solved}
Target user / context: {optional}
Innovation and evidence: {optional}
Development status / launch date: {optional}
Applicant: {student, individual, studio, company; country/region}
Candidate awards: {optional; omit to search the supported allowlist}
Submission cycle / constraints: {optional year, region, budget}
```

## Workflow

### 1. Build the project profile

The rest: https://github.com/SeanJ1ang/design-judge-skills/blob/HEAD/skills/design-award-match/SKILL.md