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.
| Skill | Best for | Works with | Stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| frontend-design (Anthropic) | Distinctive design for any new UI; plans a token system first | Claude Code, Claude.ai | ~189k (repo) | Apache 2.0 |
| UI UX Pro Max | Styles, palettes, font pairs and UX rules for web, mobile and desktop | Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and ~20 more | ~147k | MIT |
| Taste Skill | Company and marketing sites, checked in a real browser | Claude Code, Codex, skills CLI | ~112k | MIT |
| Impeccable | Critiquing and polishing existing interfaces; slop detector | Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and more | ~105k | Apache 2.0 |
| Emil Kowalski's skills | Animation, polish and component details | Any agent via skills CLI | ~54k | MIT |
| web-design-guidelines (Vercel) | Auditing UI code against 100+ accessibility and UX rules | Any agent via skills CLI | ~34k (repo) | MIT (per README) |
| shadcn | Using shadcn/ui components correctly in React apps | Any agent via skills CLI | ~128k (repo) | MIT |
| Huashu Design | Pages, app prototypes, decks and motion from one prompt; written in Chinese | Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more | ~29k | MIT |
| unslop | Turning AI-looking UI into a designed interface, pass by pass | Claude Code, Codex | ~11k | CC BY 4.0 |
| Stitch skills (Google) | Designing in Stitch, then building React or React Native | Claude Code, Cursor, Codex; needs Stitch MCP | ~9k | Apache 2.0 |
| Figma skills | Figma designs to code, and design systems in Figma (beta) | Claude Code, Cursor; needs Figma MCP | ~2k | Figma Developer Terms |
How to install and use a design skill
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/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.
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.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.
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.
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.
Hire the UI designer role
Its brief, goal and routine come set up; see the AI UI designer and the AI app designer.
Install your design skills in the repository
The employee uses the skills in
.claude/skillslike any session does.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.