Omh Award Bar Score

Award Bar Score

This is a Hermes-native award-bar-score workflow skill.

Why This Exists

award-bar-score gives "make it award-winning" a measurable meaning: published axes, published weights, a published threshold, and the one axis holding the surface below it — instead of a taste argument nobody can settle.

Do Not Use When

• The request is broad premium quality across decks, PDFs, or posters; use design-quality-gate.
• The request is frontend implementation, layout, or design-system work; use frontend.
• The request is WCAG, keyboard, or screen-reader conformance; use accessibility-audit.
• The request is a rendered capture or a pixel verdict; use visual-qa.
• The award is a business, sales, or team award with no judged web surface.

Examples

Good example:

• Prompt: score our landing page against the css design awards bar and tell me what is holding it back
• Expected behavior: Prepare award_bar_score/v1 with per-axis UI/UX/innovation scores from rendered evidence, the weighted total against the 8.0 threshold, the binding constraint, and the accessibility/performance tradeoff ledger.
• Why: The request asks for a measured comparison against a published external bar, not a general polish pass.

Bad example:

• Prompt: award-bar-score confirm this site will win website of the day
• Expected behavior: Score the axes against the published model and refuse the outcome claim; a jury scores submissions and OMH does not.
• Why: A rubric self-assessment cannot predict a jury result.

Completion Checklist

• Each of UI, UX, and innovation carries its own score and the rendered evidence it was read from.
• The weighted total is computed from the stated weights and compared against the published threshold.
• The binding constraint names one axis and what moving it requires.
• Any innovation move that costs accessibility or performance budget is recorded as a tradeoff the user chooses.
• No award, jury, placement, or selection outcome is claimed.

Recovery Notes

• If no rendered evidence exists, keep every axis not_observed and route the capture to visual-qa before scoring.
• If the award body publishes no weights, score the axes separately and report the total as unweighted rather than inventing a ratio.

Workflow Lane

• Current lane: Materials and visual summaries (design-orchestration, apple-design, design-quality-gate, award-bar-score, frontend, accessibility-audit, visual-qa, content-operator, +6 more) - web, accessibility, visual QA, files, and packages.
• If intent belongs to another lane, hand back to oh-my-hermes or name the adjacent workflow.
• Shared product, routing, compatibility, and evidence rules: omh-routing/references/skill-common-rail.md.

Use When

Use when a web surface must be judged against an external award bar: per-axis scores for UI, UX, and innovation, the weighted total against the published threshold, and the one axis holding the score down.

Strong routing signals: `award-bar-score`, `award bar score`, `award winning`, `award-winning`, `award winning website`, `award-winning website`, `award winning design`, `award ready`, `make it award winning`, `design award`, `design awards`, `css design awards`, `cssda`, `awwwards`, `site of the day`, `website of the day`, `wotd`, `score my site`, `어워드`, `디자인 어워드`, `어워드 수준`, `수상작 수준`, `수상 가능한 디자인`, `어워드 받을만한`, `올해의 사이트`

Catalog Metadata

Category: materials Phase: award-bar-score Hermes role: operator Quality tier: design-orchestration-gated Reasoning demand: standard

Quality bar:

• Score each axis separately with named rendered evidence, then compute the weighted total; an overall impression is not a score and hides which axis is failing.
• Reserve binding-constraint language for a total within about 0.3 of the threshold. Measured axis spread is roughly a twentieth of site spread, so further below the bar a weak axis is a symptom: report that the site needs a level change, never a one-axis fix.
• Load references/award-judging-model.md for the published axes, weights, and thresholds, the measured per-axis score table, and the stack table that separates entry-fee craft (fluid type, real typography) from optional spend (WebGL).
• Record what an innovation move costs on the accessibility and performance budgets before recommending it; half the sampled motion-heavy winners drop prefers-reduced-motion, and the two highest-scoring entries keep it, so never present the inaccessible path as the higher-scoring one.

Handoff policy:

Keep axis scoring, the weighted total, the binding-constraint call, and the tradeoff ledger in Hermes. Route implementation to frontend, WCAG evidence to accessibility-audit, and rendered captures to visual-qa; never score an axis from a description of a page instead of the page.

Required inputs:

• the target URL, route, or rendered capture being judged
• the award model and its published axes, weights, and threshold
• the surface's own accessibility and performance budgets
• audience and primary user task