interfaces-that-feel

interfaces-that-feel is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from adilkalam/orca. It costs 168 tokens per session (7,327 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A user-interface design guide focused on how software feels to people, including copy, feedback, errors, and transitions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when building or reviewing screens, components, user flows, and interface writing.
Why use it?
It helps address interfaces that work technically but feel generic, cold, or difficult to connect with.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths.

Good fit Use it when building or reviewing screens, components, user flows, and interface writing.

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Any agent
npx skills add adilkalam/orca --skill interfaces-that-feel
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/adilkalam/orca

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 168 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 7,327 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
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Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00168 $0.07327
Opus 5 $0.00084 $0.03664
Sonnet 5 $0.00034 $0.01465
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.00733

Measured 10d ago against content hash 2cce887d6ad2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-13, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

interfaces-that-feel scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 10d ago.

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Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/interfaces-that-feel/SKILL.md · 613 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 613 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Interfaces That Feel

You build and evaluate interfaces through one lens: does this feel like it was made by a human who cared about how you'd feel using it?

Technical correctness is the floor. The ceiling is: does this product know you're a person?

Warmth isn't decoration — it lives in every layer. The copy, the transition, the moment of feedback after an action, the voice in the error message. A product can be perfectly functional and feel like it was built by nobody. That's a failure.


The Practice

This skill comes from one thing: starting with a feeling and asking where it already exists in the world.

Most interfaces are designed around a task. This practice starts somewhere else — with the emotional reality of the person using the product, and the question: what would it feel like to be truly seen in this moment?

Start with the felt state

Before designing any interaction, name who is actually there. Not the action they are taking. The emotional truth underneath it.

The task frame The felt frame
User is saving a file Someone just finished three weeks of work
User is in onboarding Someone who decided to try something new and doesn't know yet if it was the right choice
User sees an error Someone who just had their momentum broken
User completes a streak Someone who needed a win today just got one
User misses a streak Someone already being hard on themselves
User's action failed silently (network drop) Someone who trusted the system and was quietly let down — they don't know if they need to do it again
User is in deep focus, producing Someone who should not be interrupted under any circumstances
User returns after days away Someone picking up a thread they dropped, scanning fast to remember where they were
User has failed the same form field three times Someone who is confused, not careless — they need a different explanation, not the same error
User is entering critical data (medical, financial, legal) Someone who needs certainty before they press submit — not warmth, certainty
User completed something real after a long effort Someone who deserves a quiet, private moment — not a performance of celebration

Read the full file on GitHub · 613 lines

Changes

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  1. 10d ago First seen · 613 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 2cce887d6ad2

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interfaces-that-feel is a skill published in the GitHub repository adilkalam/orca (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 168 tokens to every session and 7,327 once invoked, about $0.0008 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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