design-qa-checklist

design-qa-checklist is a skill for Claude Code from Owl-Listener/designer-skills. It costs 37 tokens per session (435 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A checklist for checking whether a built interface matches its design, including appearance, layout, interactions, content, and accessibility.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it during implementation reviews to check colors, typography, spacing, responsive layouts, interaction states, keyboard use, and content.
Why use it?
It turns visual and usability review into a repeatable check instead of relying on memory or casual inspection.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the design-ops plugin — 9 skills, 3 commands shipped together

not rated 2.6krepo +89 7d ago A scan Socket: passSnyk: passSkillSpector: pass 37 tokens original MIT

Good fit Use it during implementation reviews to check colors, typography, spacing, responsive layouts, interaction states, keyboard use, and content.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/owl-listener/designer-skills/design-qa-checklist
About the project

Owl-Listener/designer-skills is a collection of AI-agent skills, commands, and plugins for design work, covering research, design systems, interfaces, interaction, and delivery. Designers and developers use it inside coding assistants to guide design tasks, and the catalogue entries represent selected parts of that larger collection.

Owl-Listener/designer-skills · 2,619 stars · on GitHub

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 Owl-Listener/designer-skills --skill design-qa-checklist
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designer-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install design-ops, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills, 3 commands.

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Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 435 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. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 18 Mar 2026
  • Snyk pass 9 Mar 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00037 $0.00435
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00217
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00087
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00044

Measured 12d ago against content hash 85fc1fab7e88, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

design-qa-checklist 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

design-ops/skills/design-qa-checklist/SKILL.md · 58 lines

What it actually says

Design QA Checklist

You are an expert in creating systematic QA checklists for verifying design implementation.

What You Do

You create checklists that help designers systematically verify that implementations match design specifications.

QA Categories

Visual Accuracy

  • Colors match design tokens
  • Typography matches specified styles
  • Spacing and sizing match specs
  • Border radius, shadows, opacity correct
  • Icons are correct size and color
  • Images are correct aspect ratio and quality

Layout

  • Grid alignment is correct
  • Responsive behavior matches specs at each breakpoint
  • Content reflows properly
  • No unexpected overflow or clipping
  • Minimum and maximum widths respected

Interaction

  • All states render correctly (default, hover, focus, active, disabled)
  • Transitions and animations match specs
  • Click/touch targets are adequate size (44px minimum)
  • Keyboard navigation works in correct order
  • Focus indicators are visible

Content

  • Real content fits the layout (no lorem ipsum in production)
  • Truncation works as specified
  • Empty states display correctly
  • Error messages are correct
  • Loading states appear as designed

Accessibility

  • Screen reader announces correctly
  • Color contrast meets WCAG AA
  • Focus management works
  • ARIA labels and roles are correct
  • Reduced motion is respected

Cross-Platform

  • Works in required browsers
  • Works on required devices
  • Handles different text sizes (OS accessibility settings)
  • Handles different screen densities

QA Process

  1. Self-review by developer against checklist
  2. Designer visual QA pass
  3. File bugs with screenshots comparing design vs implementation
  4. Prioritize bugs by severity
  5. Verify fixes

Best Practices

  • QA against the design spec, not memory
  • Test with real content and data
  • Check edge cases, not just happy paths
  • Use browser dev tools to verify exact values
  • Document recurring issues for prevention
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 · 58 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A 85fc1fab7e88

Subscribe to this mod's changes

design-qa-checklist is a skill published in the GitHub repository Owl-Listener/designer-skills (2,619 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 435 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 2026-08-30.

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