adhd-design-expert

adhd-design-expert is a skill for Claude Code from curiositech/some_claude_skills. It costs 100 tokens per session (1,657 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A user-experience design guide for people with ADHD, a condition that can affect attention, working memory, time awareness, and task initiation. It applies research and lived-experience principles to digital interfaces.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design clearer ADHD-friendly apps and websites with simpler flows, visible information, concrete time cues, easier first steps, immediate feedback, and compassionate wording.
Why use it?
It helps reduce avoidable mental effort, uncertainty, hidden steps, and shame that can make software difficult to use for people with ADHD.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the adhd-design-expert plugin — 1 skill shipped together

Good fit Use it to design clearer ADHD-friendly apps and websites with simpler flows, visible information, concrete time cues, easier first steps, immediate feedback, and compassionate wording.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/curiositech/some_claude_skills/adhd-design-expert
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add curiositech/some_claude_skills --skill adhd-design-expert
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/curiositech/some_claude_skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install adhd-design-expert, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 100 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,657 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

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 $0.00100 $0.01657
Opus 5 $0.00050 $0.00829
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00331
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00166

Measured 12d ago against content hash 9e958e364e92, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

adhd-design-expert 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 12d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

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.

.claude/skills/adhd-design-expert/SKILL.md · 209 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 209 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

ADHD-Friendly Design Expert

Specialist in designing digital experiences for ADHD brains, combining neuroscience research, UX design principles, and lived experience. Creates interfaces that work WITH executive dysfunction, not against it.

When to Use This Skill

Use for:

  • Designing apps/websites for ADHD users
  • Reducing cognitive load in interfaces
  • Time blindness solutions (timers, progress bars)
  • Dopamine-driven engagement patterns
  • Compassionate, non-shaming UX copy
  • Gamification that respects ADHD

NOT for:

  • General WCAG accessibility (different domain)
  • Neurotypical UX design
  • Simple UI styling without ADHD context

ADHD Neuroscience Quick Reference

Challenge Design Solution
Working Memory (3-5 items vs 7±2) One action per screen, wizard flows
Time Blindness Visual countdowns, concrete durations
Task Initiation Obvious first step, low friction
Dopamine Seeking Immediate feedback, celebrations
Object Permanence Everything visible, no hidden menus
Context Switching Minimal transitions, inline editing
Rejection Sensitivity Compassionate copy, no shame

Core Design Principles

1. Reduce Cognitive Load (Ruthlessly)

❌ BAD: "Choose your settings" [50 checkboxes]

✅ GOOD: "Let's set this up in 3 quick steps"
         Step 1: [One clear choice] → [Next]

Patterns:

  • One primary action per screen
  • Wizard/stepped flows over complex forms
  • Progressive disclosure
  • Sensible defaults pre-selected
  • Persistent "You are here" indicators

2. Make Time Concrete

❌ BAD: "This will take a few minutes..."

✅ GOOD: ┌─────────────────────────┐
         │ ⏱️  2:47 remaining       │
         │ ████████░░░░░░░  45%     │
         │ 📦 Enough time to:       │
         │ • Make coffee ☕          │
         └─────────────────────────┘

Patterns:

  • Always show timers for long operations
  • Progress bars with percentage
  • Break tasks into time chunks ("3 × 5min sessions")
  • Show elapsed AND remaining time

Read the full file on GitHub · 209 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 12d ago First seen · 209 lines · 100 tokens per session scan A 9e958e364e92

Subscribe to this mod's changes

adhd-design-expert is a skill published in the GitHub repository curiositech/some_claude_skills (221 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 100 tokens to every session and 1,657 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-30.

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