If everything you build with AI still looks like AI, this is for you. These are the five design skills I’d start with. Add any of them and your designs look more intentional.
AI doesn’t come with taste. It learned design from the whole internet, the beautiful and the boring, so when you ask it to build something it reaches for the safe average. Same fonts, same layouts, same slightly off vibe.
A design skill fixes that at the source. It’s a small package of instructions you add to Claude once, and Claude designs from real rules and real reference instead of guessing. Your prompt barely changes. The result changes a lot.
I gave each one a single word so you remember its job. All five are built for Claude Code (and most work in other coding agents too).
01
Frontend Design
Professional. Anthropic’s own official skill. It pushes Claude toward distinctive, intentional visual choices (type, layout, aesthetic direction) instead of the templated default look. If you install only one, make it this. Everything else stacks on top.
Install in Claude Code: /plugin install frontend-design@claude-plugins-official
02
UI/UX Pro Max
Cohesive. Hands Claude a searchable design database instead of leaving it to guess. Its README lists 192 color palettes, 74 font pairings, 25 chart types, 119 UX guidelines and 50 active UI styles, across 22 tech stacks. Reach for it when a project has lots of screens and you want them to feel like one product.
Install in Claude Code: /plugin marketplace add nextlevelbuilder/ui-ux-pro-max-skill then /plugin install ui-ux-pro-max@ui-ux-pro-max-skill
03
Taste
Original. A community favorite for killing the generic AI look (design engineer Emil Kowalski is one of its sponsors). It reads your brief, deals three of 20 researched design directions to pick from, builds with real credited photos, then checks the page in a real browser at three screen widths and fixes its own top problems. It needs Node 22+ and Chrome, Edge or Chromium.
Install in Claude Code: /plugin marketplace add Leonxlnx/taste-skill then /plugin install taste-skill@taste-skill
04
Impeccable
Polished. Gives you a shared design vocabulary, so you steer Claude with one word instead of a paragraph. It has 24 commands, like polish, audit, critique, distill, animate, bolder and quieter. Reach for it when something feels off and you hate explaining exactly what.
To install, run npx impeccable install in your project folder. Reload Claude Code and type /impeccable init to set it up.
05
Emil Kowalski’s Skills
Premium. Emil is a well-known design engineer, and his repo holds 16 skills, and most of them are about motion. They pick easing and timing, review your animations, fix ones that stutter and spot where motion helps or hurts. Reach for these last, once the layout is right and you want it to feel expensive.
Install in Claude Code: npx skills@latest add emilkowalski/skills
Once they’re installed, open your project in Claude Code and paste this. It makes Claude use the skills on purpose instead of hoping it notices them.
/plugin go inside Claude Code. Lines starting with npx go in your terminal.Using Claude In The Browser?
Skills also work in the Claude app, where you upload them as a ZIP. Not every repo ships an app-ready file (UI/UX Pro Max says its full download is too big to upload), so check each README first. (How skills work in Claude)