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Best Claude skills for website and UI design

A design skill is a SKILL.md file that teaches Claude Code (or Codex, Cursor and other agents) how to design: which colors and type to pick, which AI-looking defaults to avoid, and how to check the result before calling it done. Without one, agents tend to ship the same gradient-and-cards page. These are the skills worth installing in 2026, what each is best at, and how to install it, from each project's own repository.

Quick picks

  • New landing page or company site: Taste Skill. It picks a direction, uses real photos and checks the page in a browser at four widths before handing over.
  • Polishing UI that already exists: Impeccable (commands like polish, critique and audit, plus a rule-based slop detector) or unslop (fixes spacing, color, icons, copy and type in order).
  • A safe default from Anthropic: frontend-design, the official skill, steers away from generic AI design.
  • Picking styles, palettes and fonts for any platform: UI UX Pro Max, a searchable design database for web, mobile and desktop.
  • Motion and the small details: Emil Kowalski's skills.
  • Reviewing code against accessibility and UX rules: Vercel's web-design-guidelines.

Website and UI design skills compared

Stars and licenses from the GitHub API on November 8, 2026, rounded. For repositories with many skills, stars are for the whole repository.

SkillBest forWorks withStarsLicense
frontend-design (Anthropic)Distinctive design for any new UI; plans a token system firstClaude Code, Claude.ai~189k (repo)Apache 2.0
UI UX Pro MaxStyles, palettes, font pairs and UX rules for web, mobile and desktopClaude Code, Cursor, Codex and ~20 more~147kMIT
Taste SkillCompany and marketing sites, checked in a real browserClaude Code, Codex, skills CLI~112kMIT
ImpeccableCritiquing and polishing existing interfaces; slop detectorClaude Code, Codex, Cursor and more~105kApache 2.0
Emil Kowalski's skillsAnimation, polish and component detailsAny agent via skills CLI~54kMIT
web-design-guidelines (Vercel)Auditing UI code against 100+ accessibility and UX rulesAny agent via skills CLI~34k (repo)MIT (per README)
shadcnUsing shadcn/ui components correctly in React appsAny agent via skills CLI~128k (repo)MIT
Huashu DesignPages, app prototypes, decks and motion from one prompt; written in ChineseClaude Code, Cursor, Codex and more~29kMIT
unslopTurning AI-looking UI into a designed interface, pass by passClaude Code, Codex~11kCC BY 4.0
Stitch skills (Google)Designing in Stitch, then building React or React NativeClaude Code, Cursor, Codex; needs Stitch MCP~9kApache 2.0
Figma skillsFigma designs to code, and design systems in Figma (beta)Claude Code, Cursor; needs Figma MCP~2kFigma Developer Terms

How to install and use a design skill

  1. Install one or two, not all of them

    Skills that each want to set the direction will fight. Pick one that designs (frontend-design, Taste Skill or UI UX Pro Max) and, if you like, one that reviews (Impeccable, unslop or web-design-guidelines).

    # Anthropic's official frontend-design (Claude Code)
    /plugin install frontend-design@claude-plugins-official
    
    # Taste Skill
    npx skills add https://github.com/Leonxlnx/taste-skill --skill "design-taste-frontend"
    
    # Impeccable
    npx impeccable install
    
    # UI UX Pro Max (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more)
    npm install -g ui-ux-pro-max-cli && uipro init --ai claude
    
    # unslop (Claude Code)
    git clone https://github.com/heydamir/unslop
    mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r unslop/skills/unslop ~/.claude/skills/
  2. Give it the brief

    Say what the page is for, who it's for and one or two sites you like. Most of these skills ask for a direction first, and the result is only as specific as the brief.

  3. Let it check its own work

    Taste Skill renders the page at four widths and runs a finish gate; Impeccable's detector runs 62 rules with npx impeccable detect src/. Keep those checks on, and look at the screenshots yourself.

  4. Save the result as a design system

    Several skills write a DESIGN.md (Impeccable, Taste Skill, Stitch). Keep it in the repository so later sessions, and other agents, follow the same colors, type and spacing. See the CLAUDE.md guide.

Source: Anthropic's frontend-design skill

Things to know before installing

  • Some skills add hooks or download an engine: Impeccable installs command hooks and has telemetry on by default (opt out with DO_NOT_TRACK=1); Taste Skill runs a finish gate as a Stop hook and needs Node 22+ and Chrome.
  • A full Taste Skill build can take 30–45 minutes and a few hundred thousand tokens, per its README.
  • UI UX Pro Max needs Python 3 and sells a premium tier; the open skill is MIT.
  • unslop is CC BY 4.0: credit the author if you reuse its text. Don't confuse it with text-focused repos of the same name.
  • Stitch and Figma skills need their MCP servers and accounts; Figma's canvas writes are beta and limited on free seats.
  • From our team: we used Taste Skill on Crewmark's own product screens and made a short video about unslop. Our sister project pretty-ui is a newer, smaller skill for the same job. For phone apps, see the best Claude skills for mobile app design.
With Crewmark

Give the skills a designer that works every day

A skill makes one session design better. Crewmark turns Claude Code or Codex into an AI UI designer with a goal, such as three polished screens a week, working hours and a board of screens to fix; it wakes on a heartbeat and opens pull requests with before-and-after screenshots.

  1. Hire the UI designer role

    Its brief, goal and routine come set up; see the AI UI designer and the AI app designer.

  2. Install your design skills in the repository

    The employee uses the skills in .claude/skills like any session does.

  3. Review pull requests, not prompts

    Approve the screens you like; ask for changes on the board. Read what an AI employee is.

Claude design skills FAQ

What is the best Claude skill for website design?

For a new site, Taste Skill or Anthropic's frontend-design; for polishing an existing UI, Impeccable or unslop; for picking styles and palettes across platforms, UI UX Pro Max. Most people install one that designs and one that reviews.

Is there an official Claude design skill?

Yes. Anthropic publishes frontend-design in anthropics/skills and as a plugin in claude-plugins-official. It's Apache 2.0 and focuses on avoiding generic AI design defaults.

How do I install a skill in Claude Code?

Use the plugin marketplace (/plugin marketplace add owner/repo, then /plugin install), the skills CLI (npx skills add owner/repo), or copy the skill's folder into .claude/skills/.

Do these skills work with Codex and Cursor?

Most do: UI UX Pro Max, Impeccable, Taste Skill and Huashu Design document Codex, and the skills CLI installs SKILL.md skills into Cursor, Codex and about 75 other agents.

Are Claude design skills free?

The skills here are open source (MIT, Apache 2.0 or CC BY 4.0). Some products around them are paid: UI UX Pro Max's premium tier, and Stitch and Figma need their own accounts.

What's the difference between Impeccable and Taste Skill?

Taste Skill builds new company and marketing sites with a real-browser check; Impeccable is strongest on interfaces that already exist, with commands to critique, audit and polish, and a rule-based slop detector.

Checked against each skill's GitHub repository and the GitHub API on November 8, 2026.

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