design-economics

design-economics is a skill for Claude Code from Dragoon0x/everything-design-taste. It costs 25 tokens per session (649 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A framework for measuring how design work affects business results, user experience, and design-team operations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to choose design metrics, calculate the cost and value of design work, and build business cases for design investment.
Why use it?
It helps replace vague claims that design is valuable with evidence about revenue, retention, efficiency, usability, and other outcomes.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the edt plugin — 117 skills, 80 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to choose design metrics, calculate the cost and value of design work, and build business cases for design investment.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dragoon0x/everything-design-taste/design-economics
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 Dragoon0x/everything-design-taste --skill design-economics
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Dragoon0x/everything-design-taste

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install edt, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 117 skills, 80 agents.

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Per session 25 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 649 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.
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 $0.00025 $0.00649
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00324
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00130
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00065

Measured 8d ago against content hash 3258125fdc68, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

design-economics 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 8d 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.

skills/design-economics/SKILL.md · 76 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 76 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Design Economics

Why This Matters

"Design is valuable" isn't an argument. "Design reduced support tickets by 30%, saving $240K/year" is.

Design Metrics Framework

Business Metrics (outcomes design influences)

  • Revenue: Conversion rate, average order value, lifetime value
  • Retention: Churn rate, daily/monthly active users, session length
  • Efficiency: Task completion time, support ticket volume, onboarding completion
  • Growth: Referral rate, NPS, app store rating

Experience Metrics (design quality indicators)

  • Usability: Task success rate, error rate, time on task
  • Satisfaction: SUS score, CSAT, ease-of-use rating
  • Engagement: Feature adoption, return visits, depth of use
  • Accessibility: WCAG compliance %, assistive tech compatibility

System Metrics (design operations health)

  • Velocity: Time from design to dev, design system adoption rate
  • Consistency: Component reuse %, custom override frequency
  • Coverage: % of features with design specs, % tested with users

Building a Business Case

The Formula

Cost of the problem (current state)
- Cost of the solution (design investment)
= Net value of design

Example

Current state: 40% onboarding drop-off
Users lost/month: 2,000
Average LTV: $120
Monthly revenue loss: $240,000

Design investment: 2 designers x 6 weeks = ~$50,000
Target: reduce drop-off to 25% (conservative)
Users saved/month: 750
Monthly revenue recovered: $90,000
Payback period: < 1 month
Annual ROI: 2,060%

What to Measure Before and After

  • Pick 2-3 metrics maximum
  • Measure baseline for 4+ weeks before changes
  • Measure impact for 4+ weeks after launch
  • Account for seasonality and other variables
  • Be honest about attribution (design is rarely the only factor)

Common Arguments and Responses

"Design is subjective" Response: Usability isn't. Task completion rate isn't. Conversion rate isn't. We can measure whether design achieves its goals objectively.

Read the full file on GitHub · 76 lines

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. 8d ago First seen · 76 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A 3258125fdc68

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design-economics is a skill published in the GitHub repository Dragoon0x/everything-design-taste (11 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 649 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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