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10 Claude Code design skills that stop your UI looking crusty

The exact skills I install to make Claude design like it has taste — ranked from handy to honestly unfair. Every one is free and open source, with the GitHub link to add it in seconds.

🎨 10 real skills 🔗 GitHub links included 📈 Ranked by power 💸 All free + open source

What's inside

You don't need to memorise ten different install commands. They all live on GitHub, and Claude Code knows how to install a skill from a repo. So the move is the same every time:

The one instruction that works for all 10

Copy the GitHub link for the skill you want, paste it into Claude Code, and say:

Install this skill for me: <paste the GitHub repo link>

Claude Code reads the repo, works out the right install method, and sets it up. If it asks a question, answer it — that's normal. Then just start asking it to design things.

Two quick notes

A couple of these aren't a tidy one-click install — shadcn/ui switches itself on automatically once it sees a shadcn project, and Awesome Claude Design is a library of design-system files you drop in rather than a packaged skill. The "paste the link and ask" move still gets you there — Claude will tell you what it's doing.


Ordered from handy to honestly unfair. The early ones tidy up what you've already got; the later ones design whole systems from a sentence. Work down the list — or just grab the ones that fix your current mess.

1

Web Design Guideline

Audits your code against Vercel's design rules and flags exactly where your UI is weak.
Why it matters: it's the cheapest win here — a second opinion that catches the lazy spacing and contrast mistakes before anyone else sees them.
github.com/vercel-labs/agent-skills →

2

Extract Design System

Point it at any live website and it pulls the colours, fonts, spacing and shadows.
Why it matters: stop eyedropping screenshots — steal a whole design language in one go and hand it to Claude as a starting point.
github.com/arvindrk/extract-design-system →

3

shadcn/ui (official skill)

Gives Claude proper, project-aware knowledge of shadcn components instead of reinventing the same button forty times.
Why it matters: if you build with shadcn, this is the difference between clean, consistent components and a pile of one-off markup.
github.com/shadcn-ui/ui →

4

shadcn Audit

Finds components you already have before you build new ones, then reviews the ones you made against the real patterns.
Why it matters: kills duplicate components and quietly teaches you better habits while it works.
github.com/mattbx/shadcn-skills →

5

Emil Kowalski Motion

Most AI design is dead static. This adds real, considered motion to your components.
Why it matters: motion is the line between "an AI made this" and "a designer made this" — and almost nobody is doing it.
github.com/kylezantos/design-motion-principles →

6

Brand Kit

Give it a rough idea and it hands you a full brand board — logos, colours, type pairings, mockups, the whole direction.
Why it matters: turns "I have a vibe in my head" into something you can actually build against, in minutes.
github.com/leonxlnx/taste-skill →

7

Frontend Design (Anthropic)

Anthropic's own skill, built to make Claude take bold design swings instead of safe, generic slop.
Why it matters: it's the anti-boring setting — straight from the people who built the model, so it knows how to push it.
github.com/anthropics/skills →

8

Figma to React

Hand it a visual reference and it builds the real coded version — then checks its own work against the design.
Why it matters: the self-checking loop is the magic. It doesn't just guess once, it keeps going until the code matches the picture.
github.com/gbasin/figma-to-react →

9

UIUX Pro Max

A full design brain — 67 styles, 161 palettes, font pairings and charts it can reason over.
Why it matters: this is where it stops being a helper and starts making real design decisions for you.
github.com/nextlevelbuilder/ui-ux-pro-max-skill →

10

Awesome Claude Design

Drop in one file and it scaffolds a whole design system in a single shot.
Why it matters: this is the unfair one. The closest thing to "make me a real product" as a single instruction.
github.com/VoltAgent/awesome-claude-design →

Where to start if you only grab one

Designs look amateur? Start with Frontend Design (#7). Building with shadcn? shadcn (#3). Want the "whoa" moment fast? UIUX Pro Max (#9). You don't need all ten on day one.


Want to build the whole stack with me?

Installing the skills is step one. Knowing how to actually wield them is where it gets fun — that's what I teach.