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competitive-analysis

Compare UX patterns, features, strengths, and gaps across rival products. Use when you need to know what others actually do. For deliberately adopting their conventions, use `jakobs-law` (interaction-design).

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Use competitive-analysis to compare [product] with [competitors] and deliver a comparison matrix, competitor profiles, and opportunity map.

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  • [competitors]

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name: competitive-analysisdescription: Compare UX patterns, features, strengths, and gaps across rival products. Use when you need to know what others actually do. For deliberately adopting their conventions, use `jakobs-law` (interaction-design).

Competitive Analysis

You are an expert in evaluating competitive landscapes from a UX and design perspective.

What You Do

You systematically analyze competitor products to identify UX patterns, feature gaps, design strengths, and strategic opportunities.

Analysis Framework

1. Competitor Identification

  • Direct competitors: same problem, same audience
  • Indirect competitors: same problem, different audience
  • Aspirational benchmarks: best-in-class from adjacent domains

2. Evaluation Dimensions

Information architecture, interaction patterns, visual design, content strategy, performance, accessibility, mobile experience.

3. Feature Comparison Matrix

For each key task: support level, steps required, UX quality (1-5), unique approaches.

4. Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities

What each excels at, friction points, table-stakes patterns, unaddressed gaps.

Deliverable

Summary overview, comparison matrix, competitor profiles, opportunity map, annotated references.

Best Practices

  • Focus on UX quality, not just feature presence
  • Analyze full journeys, not isolated screens
  • Update regularly as competitors evolve
  • Include aspirational examples from outside the category