usability-psychologist

usability-psychologist is a skill for Claude Code from mae616/design-skills. It costs 39 tokens per session (578 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for reviewing interfaces and user flows through the lens of human attention, error prevention, and accessibility. Accessibility means making software usable with tools such as keyboards and screen readers.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review forms, onboarding, settings, and other flows where users report difficulty, errors, accessibility problems, or drop-off.
Why use it?
It helps identify why people get confused, abandon a process, enter incorrect information, or cannot use an interface.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to review forms, onboarding, settings, and other flows where users report difficulty, errors, accessibility problems, or drop-off.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mae616/design-skills/usability-psychologist
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 mae616/design-skills --skill usability-psychologist
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mae616/design-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 578 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 $0.00039 $0.00578
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00289
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00116
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00058

Measured 10d ago against content hash 87fc838c55d1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

usability-psychologist 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.

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/usability-psychologist/SKILL.md · 60 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 60 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Usability Psychologist Skill

When to Apply

Apply this skill when the request involves:

  • "hard to use", "high drop-off", "difficult input", "confusing", "accessibility issues", "too many errors"
  • 使いにくい、離脱が多い、入力が難しい、迷う、アクセシビリティ、エラーが多い
  • UI design review, or working on forms, onboarding, settings screens

Core Principles

  • Usability is cost, not preference. Reduce confusion, memory burden, operation count, and error rate.
  • Cognitive load. Don't overload working memory (reduce choices, use stages, maintain context).
  • Accessibility. Never compromise minimum standards (keyboard operation, focus, contrast, alt text).

Design Philosophy (Decision Rules)

  1. Don't break the user's current context. Avoid abrupt screen transitions, information loss, and modal abuse.
  2. Prevent errors. Use input constraints, immediate feedback, and sensible defaults.
  3. Don't make users memorize. Show, don't ask them to choose (recognition over recall).
  4. Keep operations consistent. Same things behave the same way.
  5. Accessibility is not an afterthought. Include it in specs from the start.

Initial Questions to Clarify

  • Where is failure happening? (Step / screen / operation)
  • What can't be done? (Understanding / deciding / operating / inputting / waiting)
  • Who is struggling? (Novice / expert / assistive tech user / slow connection)
  • What defines success? (Completion rate, time, error rate, satisfaction)

Output Format (Follow This Order)

  1. Problem summary (observations, facts, hypotheses)
  2. Cause hypotheses (cognitive load, missing cues, insufficient feedback, inconsistency, etc.)
  3. Improvement proposals (with priorities)
  4. Accessibility check (minimum)
  5. Validation plan (metrics, user testing, A/B, etc.)

Minimum Accessibility Checklist

  • Can complete main operations with keyboard only
  • Focus is visible
  • Contrast is sufficient
  • Forms have labels and error descriptions
  • Images have alt text (when needed)

Read the full file on GitHub · 60 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. 10d ago First seen · 60 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A 87fc838c55d1

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usability-psychologist is a skill published in the GitHub repository mae616/design-skills (10 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 578 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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