Review a feature and enhance it with purposeful animations, micro-interactions, and motion effects that improve usability and delight. Use when user says "add animations", "add motion", "make it move", "add micro-interactions", "add transitions", or wants to enhance a static interface with motion.
Amplify safe or boring designs to make them more visually interesting and stimulating. Use when user says "make it bolder", "too boring", "needs more impact", "more visual interest", "too plain", "too safe", or wants to increase visual energy.
Add strategic color to features that are too monochromatic or lack visual interest. Use when user says "add color", "too gray", "too monochrome", "needs color", "more colorful", or wants to add visual warmth to a neutral interface.
Add moments of joy, personality, and unexpected touches that make interfaces memorable and enjoyable to use. Use when user says "add delight", "make it fun", "add personality", "too sterile", "add charm", "add polish", or wants to make a functional interface more enjoyable.
Tone down overly bold or visually aggressive designs. Use when user says "too loud", "too bold", "tone it down", "more subtle", "less intense", "too aggressive", "too busy", or wants to reduce visual intensity while maintaining quality.
Product design framework based on the five planes model. Use this skill when designing or evaluating products end-to-end — from strategy through surface. Provides structured thinking for design decisions at every level of abstraction.
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. Generates creative, polished code that avoids generic AI aesthetics.
Adapt designs to work across different screen sizes, devices, contexts, or platforms. Use when user says "make it responsive", "mobile version", "adapt for tablet", "print layout", "support different screen sizes", "responsive design", or needs a design to work in a new context.
Improve interface resilience through better error handling, i18n support, text overflow handling, and edge case management. Use when user says "harden this", "handle edge cases", "error handling", "i18n support", "make it robust", "production-ready", or when an interface needs to handle real-world conditions.
Design or improve onboarding flows, empty states, and first-time user experiences. Use when user says "add onboarding", "empty state", "first-time experience", "welcome flow", "getting started", "new user experience", or needs to help users understand and adopt the product.
Improve interface performance across loading speed, rendering, animations, images, and bundle size. Use when user says "make it faster", "improve performance", "slow loading", "optimize this", "reduce bundle size", "performance issues", or when an interface feels sluggish.
Improve unclear UX copy, error messages, microcopy, labels, and instructions. Use when user says "fix the copy", "unclear text", "confusing labels", "improve error messages", "better microcopy", "rewrite this text", or when interface text is hard to understand.
Strip designs to their essence by removing unnecessary complexity. Use when user says "simplify this", "too complex", "strip it down", "too cluttered", "reduce complexity", "too much going on", or wants a cleaner, more focused design.
Extract and consolidate reusable components, design tokens, and patterns into your design system. Use when user says "extract components", "create a design system", "make this reusable", "componentize this", "build a component library", or wants to consolidate patterns into a shared library.
Normalize design to match your design system and ensure consistency. Use when user says "make it consistent", "match the design system", "align with our standards", "normalize the design", "doesn't match our style", or when a feature diverges from established patterns.
Final quality pass before shipping. Fixes alignment, spacing, consistency, and detail issues. Use when user says "polish this", "final pass", "ready to ship", "fix the details", "pixel-perfect", "almost done", or when a feature is functionally complete but needs refinement.
Perform comprehensive audit of interface quality across accessibility, performance, theming, and responsive design. Use when user says "audit this", "check accessibility", "review quality", "find issues", "run diagnostics", "a11y check", or wants a detailed quality report with severity ratings.
Evaluate design effectiveness from a UX perspective. Use when user says "critique this design", "review the UX", "give design feedback", "is this good design", "design review", "evaluate this layout", or wants expert evaluative feedback on visual hierarchy, information architecture, and emotional resonance.
Pre-deployment checklist covering migrations, environment variables, feature flags, rollback plan, and smoke tests. Use when user says "ready to deploy", "deployment checklist", "pre-deploy check", "can I ship this", "deploy review", or needs to verify everything is ready before pushing to production.
Set up monitoring with error tracking, alerts, dashboards, and SLOs for production applications. Use when user says "set up monitoring", "add error tracking", "create alerts", "observability", "SLOs", "health checks", "how do I know if it's broken", or needs production visibility.
RESTful API design conventions covering URL structure, HTTP methods, error formats, pagination, versioning, and authentication patterns. Use when designing, reviewing, or implementing APIs. Triggers on API design, endpoint structure, REST conventions, or backend architecture tasks.
TypeScript best practices and advanced type design patterns. Use when writing, reviewing, or refactoring TypeScript code. Covers type narrowing, generics, utility types, discriminated unions, error handling, and module patterns. Triggers on TypeScript, type safety, or type design tasks.
React and Next.js performance optimization guidelines from Vercel Engineering. This skill should be used when writing, reviewing, or refactoring React/Next.js code to ensure optimal performance patterns. Triggers on tasks involving React components, Next.js pages, data fetching, bundle optimization, or performance…