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Frontend Design Direction

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Turns Claude into a design lead that gives every UI a distinctive visual identity instead of templated defaults.

Design & UIIntermediate★ 173,251⑂ 20,565AI score 7/10Last updated: Sep 1, 2026

What it does

  • Frames Claude as the design lead of a boutique studio, pushing deliberate, opinionated choices about palette, typography, and layout tied to the actual subject.
  • Builds a compact token system first: 4–6 named hex colors, two or more typefaces (display, body, optional utility), a layout concept with ASCII wireframes, and one signature element the page is remembered by.
  • Enforces a two-pass workflow: brainstorm → critique the plan against the brief → only then write code → keep critiquing (screenshots when supported).
  • Calls out the three current AI-design clichés to avoid: cream background + high-contrast serif + terracotta; near-black + acid-green accent; broadsheet hairline layout.
  • Includes UX writing rules: active voice, "Save changes" not "Submit", consistent action vocabulary, useful error and empty states.
  • Sets a quality floor: mobile responsive, visible keyboard focus, reduced-motion support, and warnings about CSS specificity collisions.

Who it's for

  • Frontend developers whose pages keep coming out looking the same.
  • Solo builders and small startup teams with no dedicated designer.
  • Anyone shipping landing pages, portfolios, or demo sites that need personality.
  • Engineers who want a fast, defensible first draft of a design system.

Examples

  1. "Build a landing page for a small-batch coffee roastery" → Claude proposes a palette and type pairing drawn from the subject's own materials, shows wireframes, then codes only after the plan survives self-critique.
  2. Redesigning an existing SaaS dashboard → it diagnoses which templated default the current UI falls into and proposes a new type scale plus a signature element.
  3. Cleaning up interface copy → rewrites a vague "Something went wrong" into a message that states the cause and the fix, and aligns button labels with their resulting toasts.

· · · Install guide · · ·

Try it now, no install

Paste this into Claude to use the skill without installing anything.

Read the instructions in this file and follow them to help me:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/anthropics/skills/HEAD/skills/frontend-design/SKILL.md

What I want: (describe your task here)

If Claude can't open the link, open it yourself and paste the contents instead.

↓ If it works for you, download the ZIP below and install it. Then it runs on its own — no pasting each time.

Install in the Claude app (no terminal)
  1. Download the ZIP with the button below.
  2. In Claude, open Settings → Capabilities and turn on 'Code execution and file creation'. (one time)
  3. Go to Customize → Skills → + → 'Upload a skill' and upload the ZIP.
↓ Download ZIP
Install in Claude Code

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Install the skill I found on AI Skill Mart.
Copy the skills/frontend-design folder from the GitHub repo anthropics/skills into my ~/.claude/skills/frontend-design/.
When it's done, tell me in one line what this skill can do.

Install with a command instead

git clone https://github.com/anthropics/skills.git && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r skills/skills/frontend-design ~/.claude/skills/

⚠ This is a third-party skill. Check the source repository before installing.

  1. Open a terminal (Terminal on macOS/Linux, Git Bash or WSL on Windows).
  2. Clone the repository: git clone https://github.com/anthropics/skills.git
  3. Create the skills folder if needed: mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
  4. Copy just this skill: cp -r skills/skills/frontend-design ~/.claude/skills/
  5. Verify with ls ~/.claude/skills/frontend-design — you should see SKILL.md.
  6. Restart Claude Code and ask something like "design a landing page for X"; the skill loads automatically.
  7. To remove it later, run rm -rf ~/.claude/skills/frontend-design.
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