What does this skill do, and when should you use it?
This is a guidance skill for frontend visual design, covering direction, color, typography, layout, motion, and interface copy. It grounds decisions in the subject, audience, and single job of the page before proposing a direction. It also asks the designer to identify and revise generic AI-design defaults, while taking one justified aesthetic risk. It suits teams seeking stronger design judgment and implementation planning, but it is not presented as an executable coding or testing tool.
When a brief is incomplete, it establishes a concrete subject, audience, and page goal; creates a compact token system with 4–6 named hex colors, multiple type roles, layout prose, ASCII wireframes, and one signature element; reviews the plan for generic default patterns and revises it; guides decisions about the hero, structural devices, motion, responsive behavior, keyboard focus, reduced motion, and interface copy; and provides implementation-oriented design guidance. The supplied source does not show it running commands, calling external services, or producing files.
- A frontend developer starting a new page with no clear visual direction can use it to define color, type, and layout choices.
- A designer reshaping an existing interface can use it to challenge templated visual patterns and strengthen its identity.
- A product team with an incomplete brief can use it to define the page's audience and single job before design begins.
- A team writing buttons, error states, and empty states can use it to keep interface language consistent and user-centered.
- A web project targeting mobile users can use it to review responsive behavior, keyboard focus, and reduced-motion considerations.
How do you install this skill?
- This is a static review; the skill was not executed and generated interface quality was not verified.
- The skill emphasizes design principles and process but does not define a stable output format, acceptance criteria, or failure handling.
- Users must independently review accessibility, responsive implementation, font licensing, motion performance, and brand/content accuracy.
The skill is located at plugins/frontend-design/skills/frontend-design/SKILL.md. The README says plugins can be installed through Claude Code with /plugin install {plugin-name}@claude-plugins-official; the supplied material does not explicitly state the final marketplace name for this plugin, so confirm it through /plugin > Discover.
tmp="$(mktemp -d)"
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/anthropics/claude-plugins-official.git "$tmp"
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -R "$tmp/plugins/frontend-design/skills/frontend-design" ~/.claude/skills/
rm -rf "$tmp"Generated from the source repository and skill path; it copies only this skill's folder. If the author's install steps above differ, follow those first. To scope it to one project, replace ~/.claude/skills with that project's .claude/skills.
How do you use this skill?
Once installed, send your agent any of these to trigger it:
- Create a distinctive visual direction for an event-publishing page for independent musicians. Start with colors, type, layout, ASCII wireframes, and one justified aesthetic risk, then check the plan against generic defaults.
Place the skill in an Agent Skills-compatible client, then provide a design brief such as: "Create a distinctive visual direction for an event-publishing page for independent musicians. Start with colors, type, layout, ASCII wireframes, and one justified aesthetic risk, then check the plan against generic defaults." The source specifies no additional command, parameter, or trigger syntax.
What are this skill's strengths and limitations?
- Connects visual decisions to the subject, audience, and page objective instead of relying on generic styling advice.
- Produces a discussable plan covering colors, typography, layout, and a signature element, followed by a default-pattern critique.
- Includes copy, responsive design, keyboard focus, and reduced-motion considerations.
- Shows no platform-specific frontmatter, scripts, or external-service dependencies in the supplied SKILL.md.
- The source does not show it directly writing, running, or testing code; implementation and validation remain with the adopter.
- There is no evidence of bundled components, design-token files, scripts, or a test suite.
- Its emphasis on opinionated choices and aesthetic risk may conflict with projects requiring strict adherence to an existing brand system.
- The exact marketplace plugin name is not stated in the supplied material.
How does this skill compare with similar options?
Side by side with related skills; every score comes from the same FSRS standard.
| Skill | FS score | Stars | Last updated | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Distinctive Frontend Design this page ✓ Anthropic · Official | 60 · Recommended | ★ 38k | 11d ago | Apache-2.0 |
| Impeccable | 58 · Recommended | ★ 81k | 12d ago | Apache-2.0 |
| SwiftUI Design Skill | 57 · Use with care | ★ 209 | 5mo ago | MIT |
| TypeUI Design Fundamentals | 70 · Strongly recommended | ★ 2k | 3mo ago | NOASSERTION |
| Frontend Design Skill | 52 · Use with care | ★ 5.5k | 5mo ago | MIT |
How did FollowSkills review this skill?
The skill provides only frontend-design guidance and requests no execution, external services, credentials, or sensitive data. It also mentions responsive behavior, keyboard focus, and reduced motion, with no red-line risk visible. Deducted 3 points because it lacks explicit data-flow disclosure, user confirmation, rollback, and dependency-security guidance.
The sections are coherent and provide a planning, review, build, and critique process, with accessibility-related quality requirements. Deducted 2 points because there are no tests, reproducible key paths, abnormal-input handling, or explicit failure-feedback procedures, and static review cannot verify execution.
The scope clearly targets visual design for new or reshaped web interfaces and addresses subject, audience, page goals, typography, layout, motion, and copy. Deducted 4 points because non-fit cases, trigger boundaries, and input/output formats are under-specified. No mainland-China deduction applies because the core function does not depend on an overseas service.
The document is readable and layered, with metadata, principles, process guidance, copy guidance, and quality limitations. Repository context supplies an Apache-2.0 license and official maintenance provenance. Deducted 7 points because the skill itself lacks versioning, changelog, installation/dependency notes, FAQs, and a clearly stated maintenance or update path.
The guidance can directly support a more distinctive web-design plan and specifies concrete planning artifacts such as palette, type roles, layout, wireframes, and a signature element. Static evidence supports the core task. Deducted 8 points because outcomes depend heavily on model execution and aesthetic judgment, with no representative verified outputs, acceptance criteria, or independent evidence that only light review is needed.
The skill text is complete and auditable, while the supplied repository context includes a pinned revision, license, and CI maintenance material. Deducted 6 points because there is no committed test suite covering the skill's key paths, real execution record, or independent corroboration; static evidence cannot justify a higher score.
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Evidence confidence：Low — Mostly static review, author material or a limited demo; useful for discovery, not high-risk decisions.
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