Elegant Design
Generates visually appealing and functionally optimized designs based on user prompts, prioritizing aesthetics and usability.
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Run in terminal (recommended)
claude mcp add elegant-design npx -- -y @trustedskills/elegant-design
Or manually add to ~/.claude/settings.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"elegant-design": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@trustedskills/elegant-design"
]
}
}
}Requires Claude Code (claude CLI). Run claude --version to verify your install.
About This Skill
What it does
The Elegant Design skill helps AI agents generate visually appealing and functionally optimized designs for user interfaces. It prioritizes clarity, consistency, performance, accessibility, and progressive disclosure to create intentional and delightful user experiences. The skill emphasizes following a structured design process that includes mapping user flows using tools like Graphviz and establishing a strong visual foundation based on established principles.
When to use it
- Building web applications with React/Next.js or similar frameworks
- Creating developer tools or technical interfaces
- Designing interfaces involving chat, terminals, or code display
- Implementing real-time or streaming features
- Ensuring accessibility and responsive design
- Working with design systems like shadcn/ui, daisyUI, or HeroUI
Key capabilities
- Prioritizes clarity, consistency, performance, accessibility, and progressive disclosure in design.
- Facilitates user experience mapping using flow diagrams (e.g., Graphviz).
- Emphasizes the OODA loop (Observe, Orient, Decide, Act) for optimizing user goals.
- Guides users to leverage existing components from shadcn/ui, daisyUI, and HeroUI before creating custom ones.
- Provides a foundation guide covering typography (Geist & JetBrains Mono), colors & spacing, and layout patterns.
Example prompts
- "Generate a user flow diagram for onboarding new users."
- "Design an interface for displaying code with clear syntax highlighting and error feedback."
- "Create a responsive navigation bar using the daisyUI design system."
Tips & gotchas
- The skill recommends following the outlined design process, which includes initial discovery and planning phases.
- Leverage existing component libraries (shadcn/ui, daisyUI, HeroUI) before building custom components to save time and ensure consistency.
- Typography should use Geist for UI elements and JetBrains Mono for code display with a minimum font size of 14px.
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