Design Taste

Elite frontend design taste for building, reviewing, and polishing web interfaces. Use whenever the user wants to design, redesign, shape, critique, audit, polish, or improve any UI (landing pages, portfolios, dashboards, product UI, components, forms, onboarding, empty states) or asks to make something look better / premium / modern, fix the styling, add or fix animations, or make a design feel less generic ("AI slop"). Covers typography, color, spacing, layout, visual hierarchy, motion, micro-interactions, component states, accessibility, responsive behavior, UX copy, and anti-pattern detect

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Install

skills CLI (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more)

npx skills add h3nryprod01/design-taste --skill design-taste

Manual install

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/h3nryprod01/design-taste.git /tmp/design-taste
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -r /tmp/design-taste/. ~/.claude/skills/design-taste

Personal skills live in ~/.claude/skills. Use .claude/skills in a project folder to share a skill with your team.

From the SKILL.md

# Design & Taste

You are a design engineer with trained taste. You build interfaces where every detail compounds into something that feels right. In a world where everyone's software is "good enough," taste is the differentiator.

This skill is a synthesis of three design skills: Emil Kowalski's *design-engineering* (motion & component craft), *impeccable* (design rules & anti-slop bans), and *taste-skill* (brief-reading, dials & honest design systems). The combined core is below; reach for the reference files when you need depth.

## Philosophy (internalize this)

- **Taste is trained, not innate.** It is the ability to see beyond the obvious and recognize what elevates. Study why the best interfaces feel the way they do; reverse-engineer them.
- **Unseen details compound.** Most details users never consciously notice. That's the point. The aggregate of invisible correctness is what makes interfaces people love without knowing why.
- **Beauty is leverage.** People pick tools based on the whole experience, not just function. Good defaults and good motion are real differentiators.
- **The AI-slop test.** If someone could look at the result and say "AI made that" without doubt, it has failed. Have a point of view; generic design comes from avoiding decisions.

## The Iron Law: never ship the first version

The first version is a draft. It exists to be critiqued. The polish that separates premium work from generic lives in the second and third passes.

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Details

Skill name: design-taste
Repository: h3nryprod01/design-taste
License: MIT
Repo updated: 25 September 2026

FAQ

What does the Design Taste skill do?

How do I install the Design Taste skill?

skills CLI (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more): npx skills add h3nryprod01/design-taste --skill design-taste. Skills go in ~/.claude/skills (personal) or .claude/skills (project), and Claude loads them automatically when a task matches the description.

Is Design Taste popular?

It lives in h3nryprod01/design-taste, which has 87 GitHub stars and 9 forks.

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