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frontend-design

Create distinctive, production-grade frontend interfaces with high design quality. Use this skill when the user asks to build web components, pages, artifacts, posters, or applications (examples include websites, landing pages, dashboards, React components, HTML/CSS layouts, or when styling/beautifying any web UI). Generates creative, polished code and UI design that avoids generic AI aesthetics.

84

1.35x
Quality

71%

Does it follow best practices?

Impact

96%

1.35x

Average score across 5 eval scenarios

SecuritybySnyk

Passed

No known issues

Optimize this skill with Tessl

npx tessl skill review --optimize ./config/claude/skills/frontend-design/SKILL.md
SKILL.md
Quality
Evals
Security

Quality

Content

50%

Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

This skill provides a solid philosophical framework for creating distinctive frontend designs and clearly articulates what to avoid, but falls short on actionability—there are no code examples, templates, or concrete before/after demonstrations. The content is moderately concise but includes motivational filler that doesn't help Claude execute. Adding executable examples and validation checkpoints would significantly improve its effectiveness.

Suggestions

Add 2-3 concrete code examples showing distinctive implementations (e.g., a hero section with a specific aesthetic, a card component with creative typography and motion) to demonstrate the principles in practice.

Include a quality checklist or validation step at the end: e.g., 'Before delivering, verify: no banned fonts used, CSS variables defined for theme, at least one distinctive animation, layout avoids standard grid patterns.'

Remove motivational language ('Don't hold back', 'Claude is capable of extraordinary creative work') as it wastes tokens without adding actionable guidance.

Consider creating separate reference files for font pairings, color palette examples, and animation snippets, with clear links from the main skill file.

DimensionReasoningScore

Conciseness

The skill contains some unnecessary motivational language ('Claude is capable of extraordinary creative work', 'Don't hold back') and repetitive emphasis on avoiding generic aesthetics (stated multiple times). The design thinking section and aesthetics guidelines are mostly useful but could be tightened. Some phrases like 'There are so many flavors to choose from' add no value.

2 / 3

Actionability

The skill provides concrete design principles and specific anti-patterns to avoid (e.g., named fonts to avoid, specific bad patterns like 'purple gradients on white backgrounds'), but lacks any executable code examples, starter templates, or concrete output examples showing what good vs. bad implementations look like. It's more of a design philosophy guide than actionable implementation guidance.

2 / 3

Workflow Clarity

There is a loose two-phase workflow (design thinking → implementation) but no explicit validation steps, no checklist for quality assurance, and no feedback loop for reviewing the output against the aesthetic goals. For a skill that produces complex frontend code, there should be verification steps (e.g., check accessibility, validate responsiveness, review against anti-patterns).

2 / 3

Progressive Disclosure

The content is organized into clear sections (Design Thinking, Frontend Aesthetics Guidelines) which is good, but everything is in a single file with no references to supporting materials. Given the breadth of topics covered (typography, color, motion, spatial composition, backgrounds), some of these could benefit from separate reference files with font pairing examples, color palette examples, or animation snippets.

2 / 3

Total

8

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12

Passed

Description

92%

Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

This is a strong skill description that clearly communicates both what the skill does and when to use it. It uses third person voice correctly, includes a rich set of natural trigger terms, and has an explicit 'Use this skill when...' clause. The main weakness is that its broad frontend scope could potentially overlap with other coding or component-specific skills, though the emphasis on design quality and avoiding generic aesthetics provides some differentiation.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

Lists multiple specific concrete actions and outputs: 'web components, pages, artifacts, posters, applications' with examples like 'websites, landing pages, dashboards, React components, HTML/CSS layouts'. Also specifies the quality dimension: 'production-grade', 'polished code and UI design', 'avoids generic AI aesthetics'.

3 / 3

Completeness

Clearly answers both 'what' (create distinctive, production-grade frontend interfaces) and 'when' (explicit 'Use this skill when...' clause with specific trigger scenarios like building web components, pages, applications, or styling/beautifying web UI).

3 / 3

Trigger Term Quality

Excellent coverage of natural terms users would say: 'web components', 'pages', 'artifacts', 'posters', 'applications', 'websites', 'landing pages', 'dashboards', 'React components', 'HTML/CSS layouts', 'styling', 'beautifying', 'web UI'. These are terms users would naturally use when requesting frontend work.

3 / 3

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

While it focuses on frontend/UI with a design quality emphasis, the broad scope ('web components, pages, applications, React components, HTML/CSS') could overlap with general coding skills or React-specific skills. The 'high design quality' and 'avoids generic AI aesthetics' differentiators help but the domain is still quite broad.

2 / 3

Total

11

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12

Passed

Validation

100%

Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation11 / 11 Passed

Validation for skill structure

No warnings or errors.

Repository
freekmurze/dotfiles
Reviewed

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