Designer Skills Collection

Agentic skills, commands, and plugins for design — from research to systems, UI, interaction, and delivery.
87 skills and 27 commands across 8 plugins for Claude Code.

Plugins

Plugin	Skills	Commands	Description
design-research	12	4	User research: personas, empathy maps, journey maps, interviews, usability testing, card sorting, surveys, and research repositories.
design-systems	11	3	Build and maintain design systems: tokens, components, accessibility, theming, motion, governance, and localization.
ux-strategy	11	3	Shape product direction: competitive analysis, design principles, experience mapping, information architecture, content strategy, and service blueprints.
ui-design	14	4	Craft polished interfaces: layout grids, color systems, typography, responsive design, data viz, and Gestalt/perceptual principles.
interaction-design	15	3	Design meaningful interactions: micro-animations, state machines, gestures, feedback, cognitive laws, forms, onboarding, navigation, and search.
prototyping-testing	8	4	Validate designs: prototyping strategies, usability testing, heuristic evaluation, and A/B experiments.
design-ops	9	3	Streamline operations: critique frameworks, handoff specs, sprint planning, team workflows, design debt, and impact reporting.
designer-toolkit	7	3	Essential utilities: design rationale, presentations, case studies, UX writing, system adoption, and design negotiation.

Quick Start

Claude Code

Step 1: Add the Marketplace

/plugin marketplace add Owl-Listener/designer-skills

Step 2: Install Plugins

/plugin

Go to the Discover tab to see all 8 design plugins, then select and install the ones you want.

Gemini CLI

Install individual plugins as workspace-scoped extensions. From your project root:

# Install one plugin (e.g. design-research)
mkdir -p .gemini/extensions
cp -r path/to/designer-skills/.gemini/extensions/design-research .gemini/extensions/

# Or clone the repo and symlink all extensions at once
git clone https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designer-skills /tmp/designer-skills
cp -r /tmp/designer-skills/.gemini/extensions/. .gemini/extensions/

Each extension is a directory under .gemini/extensions/ containing a gemini-extension.json manifest and a GEMINI.md context file compiled from all skills in that plugin. Gemini CLI loads the context automatically when you start a session in that workspace.

To install user-globally (available in all projects):

cp -r path/to/designer-skills/.gemini/extensions/design-research ~/.gemini/extensions/

What Are Skills and Commands?

• Skills are domain knowledge units (nouns). They teach Claude about a design topic — like creating user personas, defining design tokens, or writing error messages.
• Commands are workflows (verbs). They chain multiple skills together to accomplish a task — like running a full design system audit or planning a usability test.

All Commands

Command	Plugin	Description
/design-research:discover	design-research	Run a full user research discovery cycle.
/design-research:interview	design-research	Prepare and conduct a user interview.
/design-research:test-plan	design-research	Create a usability test plan.
/design-research:synthesize	design-research	Synthesize research data into insights.
/design-systems:audit-system	design-systems	Audit a design system for consistency and accessibility.
/design-systems:create-component	design-systems	Scaffold a full component specification.
/design-systems:tokenize	design-systems	Extract and organize design tokens.
/ux-strategy:strategize	ux-strategy	Develop a complete UX strategy.
/ux-strategy:benchmark	ux-strategy	Run a competitive benchmarking analysis.
/ux-strategy:frame-problem	ux-strategy	Structure an ambiguous challenge into a clear problem.
/ui-design:design-screen	ui-design	Design a complete screen layout.
/ui-design:color-palette	ui-design	Generate a full color palette with accessibility checks.
/ui-design:type-system	ui-design	Create a complete typography system.
/ui-design:responsive-audit	ui-design	Audit a design for responsive behavior.
/interaction-design:design-interaction	interaction-design	Design a complete interaction flow.
/interaction-design:map-states	interaction-design	Model states and transitions for a component.
/interaction-design:error-flow	interaction-design	Design error handling for a feature.
/prototyping-testing:prototype-plan	prototyping-testing	Create a prototyping and testing plan.
/prototyping-testing:evaluate	prototyping-testing	Run a heuristic evaluation.
/prototyping-testing:test-plan	prototyping-testing	Design a complete usability testing plan.
/prototyping-testing:experiment	prototyping-testing	Design an A/B experiment.
/design-ops:plan-sprint	design-ops	Plan a design sprint.
/design-ops:handoff	design-ops	Generate a developer handoff package.
/design-ops:setup-workflow	design-ops	Set up a design team workflow.
/designer-toolkit:write-rationale	designer-toolkit	Write design rationale for decisions.
/designer-toolkit:build-presentation	designer-toolkit	Structure a design presentation.
/designer-toolkit:write-case-study	designer-toolkit	Create a portfolio case study.

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md for guidelines on adding new skills, commands, and plugins.

License

MIT — see LICENSE.