pm-persona-stress-testerlisted

# PM persona stress tester Walks a persona through a design, in character, and reports what breaks. Most usability failures are obvious in retrospect. Half of them would have been obvious in advance if the team had walked through the design as the actual target user, not as themselves. This skill does that walkthrough. The persona is named, the design is parsed into steps, and the simulation goes through each step asking: *what does this user see, what do they expect, what do they do, and where does the design lose them?* Doesn't replace real user research. Filters out the embarrassing failures before you put a real user in front of the design. Adapted from the practice of using AI as a "Persona Agent" to stress-test flows pre-launch, surfaced by design leaders at enterprise products where the cost of putting a broken flow in front of an enterprise admin is high. ## When to use Use this when: - A new design or flow is drafted and you want a usability audit before testing with real users - A PRD section needs to be pressure-tested against how a specific user type would actually react - You're comparing how two different personas experience the same design (e.g., new user vs. power user, marketing manager vs. data scientist) - The persona is one you don't yet have rich customer data on, so AI simulation is the best stand-in until interviews land - You want to chain with `pm-design-critic` for a complete review (principles + simulation) Don't use when: - Real user researc