apple-design

apple-design is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from memi-design/design-skills. It costs 80 tokens per session (5,146 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of apple-design, MIT.

A web interface-design guide inspired by Apple's approach to fluid motion and physical interaction. It covers gestures, dragging, swiping, sheets, momentum, interruptible transitions, translucent surfaces, depth, and typography.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when building or reviewing gesture-driven web interfaces, spring animations, drag and swipe behavior, momentum, layered materials, or type settings.
Why use it?
It helps interactions feel connected to the user's movement instead of jumping between fixed states.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it when building or reviewing gesture-driven web interfaces, spring animations, drag and swipe behavior, momentum, layered materials, or type settings.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 80 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,146 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 94% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00080 $0.05146
Opus 5 $0.00040 $0.02573
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.01029
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00515

Measured 11d ago against content hash 96646dd5a4a8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

apple-design 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 11d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

94% identical to apple-design — 2 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/apple-design/SKILL.md · 285 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 285 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Apple Design

Native routing: this skill explains Apple-inspired interaction principles for web interfaces. For production SwiftUI, use swiftui-design-engineering; add swiftui-liquid-glass, ios-app-intents, or ios-performance-debugging only when those capabilities are in scope.

How Apple builds interfaces that stop feeling like a computer and start feeling like an extension of you. This knowledge comes from Apple's WWDC design talks — chiefly Designing Fluid Interfaces (WWDC 2018) — distilled and translated into the web platform (CSS, Pointer Events, requestAnimationFrame, spring libraries like Motion/Framer Motion).

The through-line: an interface feels alive when motion starts from the current on-screen value, inherits the user's velocity, projects momentum forward, and can be grabbed and reversed at any instant. Springs are the tool that makes all of this natural, because they are inherently interruptible and velocity-aware.

The Core Idea

"When we align the interface to the way we think and move, something magical happens — it stops feeling like a computer and starts feeling like a seamless extension of us."

An interface is fluid when it behaves like the physical world: things respond instantly, move continuously, carry momentum, resist at boundaries, and can be redirected mid-motion. Everything below is a way to get closer to that.

Apple frames design as serving four human needs: safety/predictability, understanding, achievement, and joy. Every rule here serves one of them.

1. Response — kill latency

The moment lag appears, the feeling of directness "falls off a cliff." Response is the foundation everything else is built on.

  • Respond on pointer-down, not on release. Highlight a button the instant it's pressed. Waiting for click/touch-up to show feedback feels dead.
  • Be vigilant about every latency. Audit debounces, artificial timers, transition waits, and the ~300ms tap delay. Anything on the input path that isn't essential is a regression.
  • Feedback must be continuous during the interaction, not just at the end. For a drag, slider, or drawer, update the UI 1:1 with the pointer the whole way through — never animate only when the gesture completes.

Read the full file on GitHub · 285 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 11d ago First seen · 285 lines · 80 tokens per session scan A 96646dd5a4a8

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apple-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository memi-design/design-skills (7 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 80 tokens to every session and 5,146 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 94% identical to apple-design, differing in 2 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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