usability

usability is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from flitzrrr/frontend-design-skills. It costs 33 tokens per session (1,445 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of rules and methods for checking whether websites and forms are easy to use. It covers usability reviews, error messages, form design, readable content, and improving the path users take toward completing a task.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to evaluate pages, improve forms and error states, make content easier to scan, or assess a website using Nielsen's usability heuristics and ISO 9241 criteria.
Why use it?
It replaces guesswork with checks based on established usability principles. It helps find confusing interactions, unclear feedback, and barriers that can stop users from completing forms or other tasks.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to evaluate pages, improve forms and error states, make content easier to scan, or assess a website using Nielsen's usability heuristics and ISO 9241 criteria.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/flitzrrr/frontend-design-skills/usability
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 flitzrrr/frontend-design-skills --skill usability
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/flitzrrr/frontend-design-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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.

agentmods badge for usability

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/flitzrrr/frontend-design-skills/usability"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/flitzrrr/frontend-design-skills/usability/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for usability

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 33 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,445 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 $0.00033 $0.01445
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00723
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00289
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00145

Measured 8d ago against content hash d526676c0d5a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

usability 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-src/usability/SKILL.md · 154 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 154 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Usability

Usability is not a gut feeling — it is a measurable quality criterion. Every interaction must work without cognitive effort.

Scope

Use this skill when you:

  • Evaluate a website or individual pages for usability
  • Design or optimize forms
  • Design error states and feedback mechanisms
  • Conduct a heuristic evaluation based on Nielsen's heuristics
  • Aim to increase conversion rates through improved usability
  • Need to make content scannable and readable

Principles

1. Don't Make Me Think

Every interaction works without cognitive effort. Users don't read — they scan. Users don't choose optimally — they take the first available path.

2. Effectiveness Before Efficiency Before Satisfaction

The three ISO 9241 criteria build upon each other. First, the task must be achievable; then with minimal effort; then with satisfaction.

3. Conventions Beat Creativity

Users have learned patterns (logo top-left = homepage, search top-right, shopping cart icon). Only break these with demonstrable justification.

4. Aesthetic-Usability Effect

Aesthetically pleasing interfaces are perceived as more usable. Beauty is not a luxury — it is a usability factor.

5. Error Tolerance as a Requirement

Users make mistakes. Every interaction must be error-tolerant and provide clear feedback.

6. Measurability

Usability is measured through task completion, error rate, task time, and satisfaction scores.

Rules

DO: Enforce Consistency

  • USE uniform fonts, colors, design elements, and writing conventions across all pages.
  • ENSURE that similar page types have identical layouts.
  • USE a consistent interaction model (same button styles, same hover effects, same form logic).

DO: Optimize Above the Fold

  • PLACE the most important message, the primary CTA, and a clear headline in the visible area without scrolling.
  • AVOID "Welcome" as the first headline. Use benefit-oriented statements instead.

DO: Keep Forms Minimal

  • ASK only for required fields. Every additional field reduces the conversion rate.
  • MARK required fields clearly.
  • USE clear field labels — never use placeholders as the only labels.
  • DISPLAY error messages directly at the affected field.
  • PRESERVE correctly filled fields when errors occur.

Read the full file on GitHub · 154 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 · 154 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A d526676c0d5a

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usability is a skill published in the GitHub repository flitzrrr/frontend-design-skills (5 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 1,445 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-31.

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