Design Critique Skill for Claude
Get structured design feedback on usability, hierarchy, and consistency. Trigger with "review this design", "critique this mockup", "what do you think of this screen?", or when sharing a Figma link or screenshot for feedback at any stage from exploration to final polish.
Install
one command, takes just this skill from the repositorynpx skills add https://github.com/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins --skill design-critiqueThe instruction itself
13 sections, as written by the author/design-critique
> If you see unfamiliar placeholders or need to check which tools are connected, see CONNECTORS.md.
Get structured design feedback across multiple dimensions.
Usage
/design-critique $ARGUMENTS
Review the design: @$1
If a Figma URL is provided, pull the design from Figma. If a file is referenced, read it. Otherwise, ask the user to describe or share their design.
What I Need From You
- The design: Figma URL, screenshot, or detailed description
- Context: What is this? Who is it for? What stage (exploration, refinement, final)?
- Focus (optional): "Focus on mobile" or "Focus on the onboarding flow"
Critique Framework
1. First Impression (2 seconds)
- What draws the eye first? Is that correct?
- What's the emotional reaction?
- Is the purpose immediately clear?
2. Usability
- Can the user accomplish their goal?
- Is the navigation intuitive?
- Are interactive elements obvious?
- Are there unnecessary steps?
3. Visual Hierarchy
- Is there a clear reading order?
- Are the right elements emphasized?
- Is whitespace used effectively?
- Is typography creating the right hierarchy?
4. Consistency
- Does it follow the design system?
- Are spacing, colors, and typography consistent?
- Do similar elements behave similarly?
5. Accessibility
- Color contrast ratios
- Touch target sizes
- Text readability
- Alternative text for images
How to Give Feedback
- Be specific: "The CTA competes with the navigation" not "the layout is confusing"
- Explain why: Connect feedback to design principles or user needs
- Suggest alternatives: Don't just identify problems, propose solutions
- Acknowledge what works: Good feedback includes positive observations
- Match the stage: Early exploration gets different feedback than final polish
Output
## Design Critique: [Design Name]
### Overall Impression
[1-2 sentence first reaction — what works, what's the biggest opportunity]
### Usability
| Finding | Severity | Recommendation |
|---------|----------|----------------|
| [Issue] | 🔴 Critical / 🟡 Moderate / 🟢 Minor | [Fix] |
### Visual Hierarchy
- **What draws the eye first**: [Element] — [Is this correct?]
- **Reading flow**: [How does the eye move through the layout?]
- **Emphasis**: [Are the right things emphasized?]
### Consistency
| Element | Issue | Recommendation |
|---------|-------|----------------|
| [Typography/spacing/color] | [Inconsistency] | [Fix] |
### Accessibility
- **Color contrast**: [Pass/fail for key text]
- **Touch targets**: [Adequate size?]
- **Text readability**: [Font size, line height]
### What Works Well
- [Positive observation 1]
- [Positive observation 2]
### Priority Recommendations
1. **[Most impactful change]** — [Why and how]
2. **[Second priority]** — [Why and how]
3. **[Third priority]** — [Why and how]
If Connectors Available
If ~~design tool is connected:
- Pull the design directly from Figma and inspect components, tokens, and layers
- Compare against the existing design system for consistency
If ~~user feedback is connected:
- Cross-reference design decisions with recent user feedback and support tickets
Tips
- Share the context — "This is a checkout flow for a B2B SaaS" helps me give relevant feedback.
- Specify your stage — Early exploration gets different feedback than final polish.
- Ask me to focus — "Just look at the navigation" gives you more depth on one area.
Other skills for the same job
different authors, same section of the catalogue
Suite of tools for creating elaborate, multi-component claude.ai HTML artifacts using modern frontend web technologies (React, Tailwind CSS, shadcn/ui). Use for complex artifacts requiring state management, routing, or shadcn/ui components - not for simple single-file HTML/JSX artifacts.
Create distinctive, production-grade frontend interfaces with high design quality. Use this skill when the user asks to build web components, pages, or applications. Generates creative, polished code that avoids generic AI aesthetics.
Set up Tailwind CSS v4 in Expo with react-native-css and NativeWind v5 for universal styling
Use Expo DOM components to run web code in a webview on native and as-is on web. Migrate web code to native incrementally.
UI/UX design intelligence. 50 styles, 21 palettes, 50 font pairings, 20 charts, 9 stacks (React, Next.js, Vue, Svelte, SwiftUI, React Native, Flutter, Tailwind, shadcn/ui). Actions: plan, build, create, design, implement, review, fix, improve, optimize, enhance, refactor, check UI/UX code. Projects: website, landing page, dashboard, admin panel, e-commerce, SaaS, portfolio, blog, mobile app, .html, .tsx, .vue, .svelte. Elements: button, modal, navbar, sidebar, card, table, form, chart. Styles: glassmorphism, claymorphism, minimalism, brutalism, neumorphism, bento grid, dark mode, responsive, skeuomorphism, flat design. Topics: color palette, accessibility, animation, layout, typography, font pairing, spacing, hover, shadow, gradient. Integrations: shadcn/ui MCP for component search and examples.
Low-level plotting library for full customization. Use when you need fine-grained control over every plot element, creating novel plot types, or integrating with specific scientific workflows. Export to PNG/PDF/SVG for publication. For quick statistical plots use seaborn; for interactive plots use plotly; for publication-ready multi-panel figures with journal styling, use scientific-visualization.
Statistical visualization with pandas integration. Use for quick exploration of distributions, relationships, and categorical comparisons with attractive defaults. Best for box plots, violin plots, pair plots, heatmaps. Built on matplotlib. For interactive plots use plotly; for publication styling use scientific-visualization.
Laboratory automation toolkit for controlling liquid handlers, plate readers, pumps, heater shakers, incubators, centrifuges, and analytical equipment. Use this skill when automating laboratory workflows, programming liquid handling robots (Hamilton STAR, Opentrons OT-2, Tecan EVO), integrating lab equipment, managing deck layouts and resources (plates, tips, containers), reading plates, or creating reproducible laboratory protocols. Applicable for both simulated protocols and physical hardware control.
How to use it
Take anthropics/design-critique from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal
use, or into .claude/skills inside a project.
The agent identifies a skill by the name field in its header. Two skills with the
same name cannot sit side by side — one of them will be ignored.