Agent skill · design visual · sickn33
design-thinking
Direction and intent for frontend design. Use with design when defining purpose, tone, domain, color world, and review bar; includes cross-domain lens from cinema, architecture, marketing, UX, automotive, industrial design.
Why this skill is useful
Provides a structured approach to frontend design that incorporates cross-domain principles and intentionality, which the AI may not generate on its own.
What it needs
About 4k tokens when loaded. Last updated 2026-08-07. 44,571 stars on the source repository.
What this skill does
Design thinking When to Use Use this skill when you need direction and intent for frontend design. Use with design when defining purpose, tone, domain, color world, and review bar; includes cross-domain lens from cinema, architecture, marketing, UX, automotive, industrial design. Apply with the design skill on every design task. Do this before coding. Design thinking (before coding) Purpose: What problem does this interface solve? Who uses it? Tone: Pick an extreme and execute with intention — e.g. brutally minimal, maximalist, retro-futuristic, organic/natural, luxury/refined, playful/toy-like, editorial/magazine, brutalist/raw, art deco/geometric, soft/pastel, industrial/utilitarian. Constraints: Framework, performance, accessibility. Differentiation: One thing that makes it unforgettable. Commit to one bold direction. Intentionality over intensity. Reserve impact for punctuation (use sparingly for effect) High-impact devices — full-bleed media, dramatic motion, oversized type, a saturated accent, parallax — lose their force the moment they become the default. If every section is a full-screen video, none of them land. Choose 1–2 moments to go big (the hero, the payoff) and make everything else quiet and contained, so the big moments read as deliberate punctuation rather than noise. Restraint is what gives the rare full-bleed beat its hit; wall-to-wall intensity reads as flat. This is the luxury of reduction — a single bold gesture in generous negative space beats maximalism. Applies equally to scale, color (one accent, not five), and motion (one signature move, not constant animation). Domain and color Domain: 5+ concepts, metaphors, or vocabulary from the product's world (territory, not features). Color world: 5+ colors that "belong" in that world — what you'd see if this product were a physical space. Not "warm" or "cool"; name actual colors from that domain. Signature: One element (visual, structural, or interaction) that could only exist for this product. …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
@skills sickn33/design-thinking--d01c53