How to use the Design system audit template

Start a board from it
Use this template opens a new Freero board with the Design system audit template on it (sign up free first). On a board you already have, open Templates in the toolbar and search for “Design system audit”.
Follow the instruction on the board
“Screenshot every variant you find in the live product before deciding anything. Count them: the numbers win the argument for you.”
Fill in each part
- Table Columns: Component · Variants found · Problems · Action · Priority
Bring your team and your agents
Invite people to the board or share a link, and work on it together live. The timer is in the top bar, private mode and voting in the board menu, and Claude or ChatGPT can join through Freero’s MCP server.

Work on it with an AI agent

Connect an assistant once and it works on the board with you, with your permissions: by default it reads and proposes, and people decide.

You ask: “Fill in the Design system audit board from these notes.”
What happens It reads the board, then proposes sticky notes for it. Nothing changes until someone on the board accepts them.
You ask: “Group what we wrote into themes and list the actions.”
What happens It proposes clusters with a title each and task cards for the actions, labelled with its name and yours.

Component proposal
Propose a new design system component: the need, where it’s used, its variants and states, accessibility and what it replaces.
Accessibility review
Review a screen or flow against the four public principles of accessible design, with concrete checks and what to fix.
Design QA checklist
Check a built feature against the design before release: layout, states, content, accessibility and responsiveness.
User flow
The screens and steps a person goes through to finish one task, with what each step must achieve and where it can go wrong.
Design critique
Give feedback on a design against its goal: what works, open questions, concrete suggestions and what the designer decides.
Usability test plan
Plan a round of usability sessions: what you need to learn, with whom, the tasks they will try and how you will judge success.