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Claude design skills decide whether your site looks generic or actually stands out. We break down the best Claude skills for design, the ones that change your output, not the ones that just add noise, plus the Claude workflow we use daily and the top AI tools for designers.
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In this video we go through the Claude design skills that actually change your output. We start with Anthropic’s frontend design skill, the minimal version that shapes your design direction before any code is written. It’s the Claude Code frontend design skills foundation a lot of other skills build on, since it forces a real direction (editorial, brutalist, luxury) instead of drifting into AI slop. Strongest for Claude website design and portfolios.
Once you move into functional products, the problem changes. We cover shadcn, the skill and the MCP, for proper Claude Code design on dashboards and real apps, plus a dedicated dashboard skill that arranges data like a real analytics tool. For Claude design UI matched to your product, UI UX Pro Max runs an engine first: five searches across an open-source database, then a color palette, font pairing, and layout tuned to your industry.
We also break down GSAP for animations, drop-in UI style presets (minimalist, brutalist, all-rounder, premium), Higgsfield for image and video visuals inside your agent, and the full mobile set (principles, Material 3, SwiftUI, Expo). A lot of these are open, so the Claude Code open design tooling here is yours to grab, read, and adapt to any model. This is the Claude design skill stack that takes a site from generic to something with a real point of view.
Skills mentioned in this video:
Frontend design skill: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/blob/main/plugins/frontend-design/skills/frontend-design/SKILL.md
shadcn UI skill: https://github.com/shadcn-ui/ui/blob/main/skills/shadcn/SKILL.md
Dashboard: https://github.com/bergside/awesome-design-skills/tree/main/skills/dashboard
UI UX Pro Max: https://github.com/nextlevelbuilder/ui-ux-pro-max-skill
GSAP: https://github.com/greensock/gsap-skills
Minimalist UI: https://www.skills.sh/leonxlnx/taste-skill/minimalist-ui
Industrial brutalist UI: https://www.skills.sh/leonxlnx/taste-skill/industrial-brutalist-ui
Frontend UI UX: https://www.skills.sh/code-yeongyu/oh-my-opencode/frontend-ui-ux
Premium frontend UI: https://www.skills.sh/github/awesome-copilot/premium-frontend-ui
Mobile app UI design: https://github.com/ceorkm/mobile-app-ui-design
SwiftUI skill: https://github.com/ameyalambat128/swiftui-skills
Material 3 skill: https://github.com/hamen/material-3-skill
Expo apps: https://github.com/expo/skills/blob/main/plugins/expo/skills/building-native-ui/SKILL.md
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