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Top Skills for Design

UI/UX systems, brand guidelines, distinctive frontends, design tokens, Figma workflows.

22 skills indexed · ranked by composite score · updated August 25, 2026

Top 6 Design skills

  1. 1.frontend-design

    Escape generic AI-generated UIs. Forces a bold, distinctive design direction before any code is written.

  2. 2.remotion-best-practices

    Programmatic video done right. Idiomatic Remotion patterns auto-activate when detected.

  3. 3.drawio

    The only vendor-official skill from a major diagramming product — and it emits editable .drawio files rather than a throwaway image.

  4. 4.text-to-speech

    Vendor-official voiceover generation across 70+ languages, from the company that defined the category. Ships with evals, which almost no skill does.

  5. 5.use-runway-api

    Generative video from the vendor developers name first, as a skill set rather than an SDK crawl.

  6. 6.shadcn-context

    shadcn/ui context: components, patterns, and the right composition by default.

About Design

Design vertical Skills are the toolkit for product designers, design engineers, UX writers and design leads — design-system audit, component documentation, accessibility review, design critique, UX copy, research synthesis. The category mirrors the primary frontend-design group but is organized by role and includes upstream research and downstream handoff work.

The common workflows are familiar to any design team: review a mockup for usability and hierarchy, audit a design system for inconsistencies, generate developer handoff specs (layout, tokens, states, breakpoints), write microcopy for empty states and errors, run a WCAG accessibility audit, synthesize user research notes into themes. Several Skills pair with the Figma MCP server for live design context and round-tripping.

Product designers, design system leads, design engineers, UX researchers, and design managers use these Skills. Composite scoring weights install count, provenance (design agencies, system maintainers), and how well the Skill respects design intent — Skills that auto-correct without flagging deviations lose to those that surface the tradeoff.

Ranked by score

Best Design Skills

Skills with strong fit for design workflows.

Escape generic AI-generated UIs. Forces a bold, distinctive design direction before any code is written.

ReactTailwindDesign
All surfaces
Low1 min

The only vendor-official skill from a major diagramming product — and it emits editable .drawio files rather than a throwaway image.

draw.ioFlowchartArchitecture
Code
Low2 min

Vendor-official voiceover generation across 70+ languages, from the company that defined the category. Ships with evals, which almost no skill does.

ElevenLabsTTSVoiceover
Code
Low3 min

Generative video from the vendor developers name first, as a skill set rather than an SDK crawl.

RunwayGenerative VideoMedia
Code
Medium4 min

shadcn/ui context: components, patterns, and the right composition by default.

shadcnComponents
Code
Low2 min

Single seed prompt → cohesive token system. Tokens that look intentional, not generated.

TokensDesign systemTheming
All surfaces
Low1 min

Senior-designer feedback on demand. Hierarchy, usability, consistency, motion.

DesignCritiqueReview
All surfaces
Low1 min

Turn a final design into a spec engineers can implement directly.

HandoffSpecsTokens
All surfaces
Low1 min

Design-system hygiene at speed. Audit, document, extend.

Design SystemAuditDocumentation
All surfaces
Medium2 min

Microcopy that respects the user. Errors, empty states, CTAs, onboarding.

UX CopyMicrocopyWriting
All surfaces
Low1 min

Lock generated UIs to a brand. Anthropic's own guidelines, formalized as a skill.

BrandGuidelinesIdentity
All surfaces
Low1 min

p5.js algorithmic art with particle systems and procedural geometry.

p5.jsGenerativeArt
All surfaces
Low1 min

Visual art from prose. PNG and PDF outputs that look intentionally designed.

CanvasPNGPDF
All surfaces
Low1 min

Turn raw research into themes, segments, and a prioritized next-steps list.

ResearchSynthesisUX
All surfaces
Low1 min

Research-ops in a skill. Plan the study, run it, synthesize the findings.

ResearchInterviewsSurveys
All surfaces
Low1 min

Brand-checked design output at volume — the production half of design work.

CanvaDesign OpsBrand
Code
Medium5 min
Community

A named design canon for charts, not another plotting wrapper.

ChartsTufteDesign
Code
Low2 min

FAQ

Frequently asked

Do design Skills work with Figma?

Yes — the official Figma plugin ships Skills (figma-generate-design, figma-code-connect) for design-to-code and code-to-design workflows. Several community Skills also wrap the Figma MCP.

How rigorous is the accessibility-review Skill?

It runs against WCAG 2.1 AA — color contrast, keyboard navigation, focus rings, touch targets, screen reader behavior. It is the standard pre-handoff check.

Are these Skills useful for design systems?

Yes — design-system Skills audit naming consistency, find hardcoded values, document component variants and states, and propose new patterns that fit the existing system.

Can a Skill replace a real design critique?

No — Skills catch the mechanical issues (hierarchy, spacing inconsistency, color-contrast). Real critique covers intent, brand fit, and tradeoffs that the Skill cannot judge.

Do research-synthesis Skills handle interview transcripts?

Yes — they cluster transcripts into themes, identify recurring patterns, and surface representative quotes. They work best with raw transcripts; pre-summarized notes lose signal.

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