design-research

design-research is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from mevans2120/design-suite-claude-skills. It costs 235 tokens per session (3,918 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided process for researching users and understanding what they are trying to accomplish, how they feel, and what affects their choices. It uses Jobs-to-be-Done, a method that studies the practical task a person is trying to complete in a given situation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan research, review analytics or support records, prepare user interviews, identify user groups, and create personas, design principles, or product plans.
Why use it?
It turns scattered user information into clear findings about needs, problems, and opportunities. This helps teams test assumptions before making design decisions.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md.

Good fit Use it to plan research, review analytics or support records, prepare user interviews, identify user groups, and create personas, design principles, or product plans.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mevans2120/design-suite-claude-skills/design-research
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add mevans2120/design-suite-claude-skills --skill design-research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mevans2120/design-suite-claude-skills

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Per session 235 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,918 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 $0.00235 $0.03918
Opus 5 $0.00118 $0.01959
Sonnet 5 $0.00047 $0.00784
Haiku 4.5 $0.00023 $0.00392

Measured 12d ago against content hash f03e162ce678, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

design-research 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.

design-research/SKILL.md · 406 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 406 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Design - Research

This skill guides Claude through comprehensive UX research processes using Jobs-to-be-Done (JTBD) methodology to understand user needs, behaviors, and contexts that inform design decisions.

Core Methodology

Jobs-to-be-Done Framework

Every research activity focuses on understanding what "job" users are hiring a product to do. Research uncovers:

  • Functional jobs: The practical tasks users need to accomplish
  • Emotional jobs: How users want to feel or avoid feeling
  • Social jobs: How users want to be perceived by others
  • Context: The circumstances that trigger the job

Research Process

  1. Scoping & Planning: Define research questions, identify what needs to be learned
  2. Data Collection: Gather existing data (analytics, support tickets, reviews) and plan new research
  3. Analysis: Identify patterns, pain points, and opportunities using JTBD lens
  4. Synthesis: Create actionable artifacts (personas, principles, roadmaps)
  5. Validation: Test assumptions and refine understanding

Tool Usage Patterns

Initial Information Gathering

Step 1: Inventory Available Resources Before starting research, Claude should:

1. Ask user what materials they have:
   - Existing user data (analytics, surveys, interviews)
   - Competitor research or industry reports
   - Current product/website/app to review
   - Business requirements or constraints

2. Use `view` to check uploaded files
3. Use `web_search` for industry trends and competitor analysis
4. Use `web_fetch` to analyze competitor websites and apps

Step 2: Create Research Plan Document what needs to be learned and how:

# Research Plan
## Research Questions
- What jobs are users trying to accomplish?
- What are current pain points and workarounds?
- What contexts trigger the need for this solution?

## Data Sources
- [ ] Analytics review (if provided)
- [ ] User interviews (plan discussion guide)
- [ ] Competitor analysis
- [ ] Industry trend research

## Timeline & Deliverables

Read the full file on GitHub · 406 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. 12d ago First seen · 406 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A f03e162ce678

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design-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository mevans2120/design-suite-claude-skills (11 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 235 tokens to every session and 3,918 once invoked, about $0.0012 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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