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designer-skills

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About designer-skills

designer-skills is a designer toolkit by Marie Claire Dean, organized into nine domains spanning research, systems, strategy, design, testing, and operations. It suits designers seeking a broad set of skills, plugins, and commands for varied design work.

Key features

  1. 0191 skills across nine domains
  2. 02Nine plugins
  3. 0328 commands
  4. 04Research, design, testing, and operations

Use cases

  1. 01Conducting user research and synthesis
  2. 02Building and governing design systems
  3. 03Prototyping and usability testing
  4. 04Reviewing visual design

Install

Copy the command and run it in a terminal.

$npx skills add https://github.com/podo/design-agent-skills --skill designer-skills

After installing, type/designer-skillsin Claude Code to confirm it loaded.

Bundled filesstub.yaml

Details

From the project README

designer-skills

Catalogue stub — full package: Owl-Listener/designer-skills

Decision tree

  1. Is the package already installed? Check your agent's skills directory for designer-skills with content beyond this stub.

    • Yes → invoke and proceed
    • No → go to step 2

  2. Which agent?

    • Claude Code / Cursor → /plugin marketplace add Owl-Listener/designer-skills
    • Other → see GitHub README

Install command

/plugin marketplace add Owl-Listener/designer-skills

Invoke after install

  • Skill name: designer-skills
  • Trigger phrases: "designer skills", "Owl-Listener", "91 skills", "design ops", "visual critique"

What it does

A comprehensive designer toolkit by Marie Claire Dean comprising 91 skills, 9 plugins, and 28 commands organized into 9 domains: design-research (12 skills — user research, synthesis, interviews), design-systems (11 — tokens, components, governance), ux-strategy (11 — product strategy, information architecture), ui-design (14 — layout, visual design, responsive), interaction-design (15 — microinteractions, flows, prototypes), prototyping-testing (8 — usability, A/B, validation), design-ops (9 — process, tooling, handoff), designer-toolkit (7 — workflow utilities), and visual-critique (4 — design critique frameworks).

When NOT to use

  • Single-skill needs — installing the full suite may be heavier than needed
  • If you only need design review — use plan-design-review or creative-director

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