Redesign Skill for Claude

Upgrade an existing website or app to premium quality without breaking functionality — audit the current design, identify generic/AI tells, then apply taste and system rules surgically. Use when the user wants to improve, modernize, polish, or "make better" an existing UI/codebase.

503 tokens

context cost

the whole folder, loaded on every use

files

instructions only

copies elsewhere

how many repositories repackaged it

482

stars on the repo

on the repository, not the skill itself

Install

one command, takes just this skill from the repository

npx skills add https://github.com/plugin87/ux-ui-agent-skills --skill redesign

The instruction itself

4 sections, as written by the author

Skill: Redesign & Audit

Audit-first redesign that preserves behavior.

Steps

Read workflows/redesign-audit.md (the full Scan → Diagnose → Direct → Apply → Verify sequence + Output Completeness).
Scan the codebase: framework, styling method (→ route to the matching frameworks/ adapter), token reality, components, what must be preserved.
Diagnose with the Banned Defaults checklist (taste/design-taste.md) + the review rubric (design-review skill). Produce a prioritized findings table.
Direct: choose an archetype/system (apply-aesthetic skill) that fits the brand.
Apply in order — tokens first, then typography/spacing, then component states, then motion — without changing routes/data/markup semantics (except a11y fixes).
Verify: re-run design-review + a11y-audit; smoke-test every previously working flow; dark mode + responsive spot-check. Run scripts/validate_contrast.py on the token source and scripts/lint_hardcodes.py over the changed code.

Guardrails

Never sacrifice a working feature for aesthetics. Never ship a brand color that fails contrast. Never remove existing accessibility affordances. Deliver complete files — no placeholders.

Single-theme consistency (critical for multi-page apps)

Consolidate to ONE shared token theme and make every page consume it — a redesign that leaves different pages on different palettes has failed. Replace per-page/ad-hoc colors with semantic tokens; verify with scripts/lint_hardcodes.py that no page reintroduces off-theme values. Theme switches must come from the single token source, not page edits (CLAUDE.md → Single-Theme Consistency).

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How to use it

Copy the folder

Take plugin87/redesign from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal use, or into .claude/skills inside a project.

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