Frontend Design Direction
Use this skill when the work is not just making UI function, but making it feel purposeful, polished, and appropriate to the product domain.
Source: salvaged from stale community PR #1659 by linus707.
Note: ECC intentionally does not rebundle the canonical Anthropic
frontend-design skill. Install that from anthropics/skills when you want the
official upstream skill. This skill is the ECC-specific design-direction salvage
of the useful local guidance from #1659.
When to Use
- The user asks to build a web page, app, dashboard, artifact, component, or UI.
- The user asks to make an interface more polished, distinctive, beautiful, or less generic.
- The implementation needs visual hierarchy, typography, color, motion, layout, and interaction choices.
- The current UI works but reads as flat, generic, templated, or mismatched to the audience.
Design Direction
Before coding, choose a specific direction:
- Purpose: what job does the interface do?
- Audience: who repeats this workflow, and what do they need to scan first?
- Tone: utilitarian, editorial, playful, industrial, refined, technical, maximal, minimal, dense, calm, or ano…
