Claude skills for Design
4 skills in the bank are filed under Design. They are grouped here because they compete for the same jobs — which is the reason an agent reaching for one of them sometimes gets another.
- Design ConsultationgstackStudies your product and the design landscape around it, then proposes a whole design system from scratch — aesthetic direction, typography, color, spacing, motion. It is the propose-a-fresh-system step, not a critique of what you already have and not a way to explore several throwaway variations.
- Design ReviewgstackLooks at an interface you have already built with a designer's eye and calls out — then fixes — the specific flaws: inconsistent spacing, weak hierarchy, generic AI-slop styling, sluggish interactions. It critiques and repairs existing work, rather than proposing a new system or generating alternatives to choose between.
- Design ShotgungstackGenerates several distinct design variations of the same thing at once and lays them on a comparison board so you can react to real options and iterate. Its job is breadth — many candidates to choose among — not proposing one considered system or auditing a design you have settled on.
- DiagramgstackTurns a plain-English description of a flow or architecture into an actual diagram — editable source plus rendered image. It draws explanatory pictures, not user-interface designs: it is reached for to visualize how something works, not to style a screen or critique one.
Knowing the Design list is the easy half. Picking from it under time pressure is the game.
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