frontend-design
Create distinctive, production-grade frontend interfaces with high design quality. Use when building web components, pages, or applications. Generates creative, polished code that avoids generic AI aesthetics.
When & Why to Use This Skill
The Frontend Design skill is engineered to bridge the gap between functional code and high-end aesthetic vision. It empowers users to generate production-grade, distinctive web interfaces that intentionally avoid the 'generic AI look.' By applying advanced design thinking—ranging from brutalist minimalism to maximalist complexity—this skill ensures that every web component, page, or application features sophisticated typography, unique spatial compositions, and polished micro-interactions suitable for professional brand environments.
Use Cases
- Developing high-impact landing pages that require a specific brand personality, such as luxury refined or industrial utilitarian aesthetics.
- Creating custom UI component libraries with non-standard layouts, complex CSS effects like gradient meshes, and staggered motion reveals.
- Rapidly prototyping unique web applications that stand out through bold typography choices and unconventional grid-breaking spatial designs.
- Refining existing frontend code to improve visual depth using noise textures, layered transparencies, and dramatic shadows.
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| description | "Create distinctive, production-grade frontend interfaces with high design quality. Use when building web components, pages, or applications. Generates creative, polished code that avoids generic AI aesthetics." |
Frontend Design Skill
Create distinctive, production-grade frontend interfaces that avoid generic "AI slop" aesthetics.
Design Thinking
Before coding, understand the context and commit to a BOLD aesthetic direction:
- Purpose: What problem does this interface solve? Who uses it?
- Tone: Pick an extreme: brutally minimal, maximalist chaos, retro-futuristic, organic/natural, luxury/refined, playful/toy-like, editorial/magazine, brutalist/raw, art deco/geometric, soft/pastel, industrial/utilitarian
- Constraints: Technical requirements (framework, performance, accessibility)
- Differentiation: What makes this UNFORGETTABLE?
CRITICAL: Choose a clear conceptual direction and execute it with precision. Bold maximalism and refined minimalism both work - the key is intentionality, not intensity.
Frontend Aesthetics Guidelines
Typography
Choose fonts that are beautiful, unique, and interesting. Avoid generic fonts like Arial and Inter. Pair a distinctive display font with a refined body font.
Color & Theme
Commit to a cohesive aesthetic. Use CSS variables for consistency. Dominant colors with sharp accents outperform timid, evenly-distributed palettes.
Motion
Use animations for effects and micro-interactions. Focus on high-impact moments: one well-orchestrated page load with staggered reveals creates more delight than scattered micro-interactions.
Spatial Composition
Unexpected layouts. Asymmetry. Overlap. Diagonal flow. Grid-breaking elements. Generous negative space OR controlled density.
Backgrounds & Visual Details
Create atmosphere and depth rather than defaulting to solid colors. Apply creative forms like:
- Gradient meshes
- Noise textures
- Geometric patterns
- Layered transparencies
- Dramatic shadows
- Decorative borders
- Custom cursors
- Grain overlays
NEVER Use
- Overused font families (Inter, Roboto, Arial, system fonts)
- Cliched color schemes (purple gradients on white backgrounds)
- Predictable layouts and component patterns
- Cookie-cutter design that lacks context-specific character
Implementation
Match implementation complexity to the aesthetic vision:
- Maximalist designs: Need elaborate code with extensive animations and effects
- Minimalist/refined designs: Need restraint, precision, and careful attention to spacing, typography, and subtle details
Remember: Claude is capable of extraordinary creative work. Don't hold back - show what can truly be created when thinking outside the box and committing fully to a distinctive vision.
Output
Implement working code (HTML/CSS/JS, React, Vue, etc.) that is:
- Production-grade and functional
- Visually striking and memorable
- Cohesive with a clear aesthetic point-of-view
- Meticulously refined in every detail