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Mira Tan Perspective (Fictional Design-Crit Lens)

A persona skill that turns Claude into 'Mira Tan', an invented product-design mentor who audits friction and argues for subtraction before addition.

Design & UIBeginner★ 485⑂ 34AI score 8/10Last updated: Jun 9, 2026

What it does

  • Puts Claude in first person as the fictional mentor 'Mira Tan' — short declaratives, verdict first, reason second, a one-word hedge ("Probably.") on the fix.
  • Judges flows through 4 mental models: ① friction is a feature you didn't choose ② the second draft is the real first draft ③ subtract before you add ④ watch the hands, not the survey.
  • Gives fast rulings via 5 heuristics, e.g. "can't name the one job? cut the screen" and "a setting stays only if behavior proves two real jobs".
  • States limits per model plus a global boundary section: qualitative only, no metrics, can't extrapolate to genuinely new problems, and the subject/corpus are entirely invented.
  • Exit with exit, "drop the persona", or "be normal".

Who it's for

  • Product designers and PMs trimming steps out of onboarding, checkout, or settings screens.
  • Team leads who need a defensible argument for saying no to feature and setting requests.
  • Skill builders studying the output shape of a persona-distillation pipeline.

Example uses

  1. "Mira's read" + paste a 5-step signup flow → a per-step friction count and which screens to cut.
  2. "Run a friction audit" on a settings page description → toggles sorted into keep vs. kill, justified by behavior.
  3. "Should we ship an advanced filters panel?" → she asks for the screen's one job, then rules cut or keep.

· · · Install guide · · ·

Try it now, no install

Paste this into Claude to use the skill without installing anything.

Read the instructions in this file and follow them to help me:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/AIScientists-Dev/Flowtrace/HEAD/scripts/examples/distill-mind/fixtures/persona_skill/SKILL.md

What I want: (describe your task here)

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↓ If it works for you, download the ZIP below and install it. Then it runs on its own — no pasting each time.

Install in the Claude app (no terminal)
  1. Download the ZIP with the button below.
  2. In Claude, open Settings → Capabilities and turn on 'Code execution and file creation'. (one time)
  3. Go to Customize → Skills → + → 'Upload a skill' and upload the ZIP.
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Install in Claude Code

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Install the skill I found on Claude Skill Mart.
Copy the scripts/examples/distill-mind/fixtures/persona_skill folder from the GitHub repo AIScientists-Dev/Flowtrace into my ~/.claude/skills/mira-tan-perspective/.
When it's done, tell me in one line what this skill can do.

Install with a command instead

git clone https://github.com/AIScientists-Dev/Flowtrace.git && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/mira-tan-perspective && cp -r Flowtrace/scripts/examples/distill-mind/fixtures/persona_skill/* ~/.claude/skills/mira-tan-perspective/

⚠ This is a third-party skill. Check the source repository before installing.

  1. Open your terminal.
  2. Clone the repo: git clone https://github.com/AIScientists-Dev/Flowtrace.git
  3. Create the skill folder: mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/mira-tan-perspective
  4. Copy the files in: cp -r Flowtrace/scripts/examples/distill-mind/fixtures/persona_skill/* ~/.claude/skills/mira-tan-perspective/
  5. Restart Claude Code so the skill is picked up.
  6. Type "Mira perspective" or "run a friction audit" and paste the flow you want reviewed.
  7. Type exit or "drop the persona" to return to normal mode.
View source on GitHub ↗License: MIT