Official
Escape generic AI-generated UIs. Forces a bold, distinctive design direction before any code is written.
ReactTailwindDesign
By role
Top Skills for Design
UI/UX systems, brand guidelines, distinctive frontends, design tokens, Figma workflows.
17 skills indexed · ranked by composite score
Top 6 Design skills
- 1.frontend-design—Escape generic AI-generated UIs. Forces a bold, distinctive design direction before any code is written.
- 2.remotion-best-practices—Programmatic video done right. Idiomatic Remotion patterns auto-activate when detected.
- 3.accessibility-review—Pre-handoff a11y audit that catches what design QA misses.
- 4.design-critique—Senior-designer feedback on demand. Hierarchy, usability, consistency, motion.
- 5.design-handoff—Turn a final design into a spec engineers can implement directly.
- 6.design-system—Design-system hygiene at speed. Audit, document, extend.
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.
Verified
Programmatic video done right. Idiomatic Remotion patterns auto-activate when detected.
ReactVideoAnimation
Official
Pre-handoff a11y audit that catches what design QA misses.
AccessibilityWCAGAudit
Official
Senior-designer feedback on demand. Hierarchy, usability, consistency, motion.
DesignCritiqueReview
Official
Turn a final design into a spec engineers can implement directly.
HandoffSpecsTokens
Official
Design-system hygiene at speed. Audit, document, extend.
Design SystemAuditDocumentation
Official
Microcopy that respects the user. Errors, empty states, CTAs, onboarding.
UX CopyMicrocopyWriting
Verified
Tailwind that scales. Token mapping, responsive variants, dark mode, plugins.
TailwindCSSTokens
Code
Low2 min
Official
Single seed prompt → cohesive token system. Tokens that look intentional, not generated.
TokensDesign systemTheming
Official
Turn raw research into themes, segments, and a prioritized next-steps list.
ResearchSynthesisUX
Official
Research-ops in a skill. Plan the study, run it, synthesize the findings.
ResearchInterviewsSurveys
100+ accessibility and UX rules from Vercel, applied as a structural audit on your UI code.
A11yUXAudit
Verified
shadcn/ui context: components, patterns, and the right composition by default.
shadcnComponents
Code
Low2 min
Official
Lock generated UIs to a brand. Anthropic's own guidelines, formalized as a skill.
BrandGuidelinesIdentity
Official
p5.js algorithmic art with particle systems and procedural geometry.
p5.jsGenerativeArt
Official
Visual art from prose. PNG and PDF outputs that look intentionally designed.
CanvasPNGPDF
Community
Favicons, app icons, social cards — generated at all the right sizes.
FaviconsIconsOG
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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