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Read financials, map competitive landscapes, and argue design decisions in the language of value.
Install Business Design
$ npx skills add Owl-Listener/designer-skills --skill business-design -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install Owl-Listener/designer-skills business-design --agent claude-codeProject scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designer-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/ux-strategy/skills/business-design .claude/skills/business-design && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.
Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/
Install the "business-design" agent skill from https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designer-skills/tree/main/ux-strategy/skills/business-design into .claude/skills/business-design/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "business-design", then confirm the skill loads.Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$skill-installer install https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designer-skills/tree/main/ux-strategy/skills/business-designType this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.
$ npx skills add Owl-Listener/designer-skills --skill business-design -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install Owl-Listener/designer-skills business-design --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designer-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/ux-strategy/skills/business-design .agents/skills/business-design && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "business-design" agent skill from https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designer-skills/tree/main/ux-strategy/skills/business-design into .agents/skills/business-design/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "business-design", then confirm the skill loads.Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add Owl-Listener/designer-skills --skill business-design -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install Owl-Listener/designer-skills business-design --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designer-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/ux-strategy/skills/business-design .cursor/skills/business-design && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.
Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/
Install the "business-design" agent skill from https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designer-skills/tree/main/ux-strategy/skills/business-design into .cursor/skills/business-design/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "business-design", then confirm the skill loads.Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gemini skills install https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designer-skills.git --path ux-strategy/skills/business-design--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.
$ npx skills add Owl-Listener/designer-skills --skill business-design -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install Owl-Listener/designer-skills business-design --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designer-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/ux-strategy/skills/business-design .gemini/skills/business-design && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.
Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "business-design" agent skill from https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designer-skills/tree/main/ux-strategy/skills/business-design into .gemini/skills/business-design/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "business-design", then confirm the skill loads.Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gh skill install Owl-Listener/designer-skills business-designInstalls for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ npx skills add Owl-Listener/designer-skills --skill business-design -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designer-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/ux-strategy/skills/business-design .github/skills/business-design && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.
GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "business-design" agent skill from https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designer-skills/tree/main/ux-strategy/skills/business-design into .github/skills/business-design/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "business-design", then confirm the skill loads.GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add Owl-Listener/designer-skills --skill business-design -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install Owl-Listener/designer-skills business-design --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designer-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/ux-strategy/skills/business-design .opencode/skills/business-design && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.
OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "business-design" agent skill from https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designer-skills/tree/main/ux-strategy/skills/business-design into .opencode/skills/business-design/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "business-design", then confirm the skill loads.OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
Facts
- Skill name
business-design- GitHub stars
- 2.9k
- Used in
- 1 other repo
- Token cost
- ~1.1k tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 605 words
- Files
- 1
- Skills in repo
- 107
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- MIT
At a glance
Read financials, map competitive landscapes, and argue design decisions in the language of value.
- Defending design to commercial stakeholders
- SKILL.md covers What You Do, Reading a P&L as a Designer, Competitive Landscape Mapping and Defending Design in Business…, plus 3 more sections
- Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
- Tasks that involve Architecture decision records
What it does
Business Design is an agent skill from Owl-Listener/designer-skills. Read financials, map competitive landscapes, and argue design decisions in the language of value. Use when defending design to commercial stakeholders. For the live negotiation itself, use design-negotiation (designer-toolkit).
Its SKILL.md is about 1.1k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.
It sits in Development, covering Architecture decision records. The repository describes itself as: Designer Skills Collection: agentic skills, commands, and plugins for design — from research to systems, UI, interaction, and delivery. The licence is MIT.
When your agent uses it
- Defending design to commercial stakeholders
- Tasks that involve Architecture decision records
Example prompts
- “/business-design”
What it can do on your machine
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 9a6930c. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.
Tool permissions
Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.
From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.
Runs code
No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.
From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.
Network
Links to these hosts (documentation or services it may open):
d.mba
From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.
Credentials
Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.
From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.
Context cost
Business Design loads about 1.1k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 61 tokens; SKILL.md has 605 words of instructions outside code blocks.
Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.
Safety
Auto-check passed
The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.
Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.
SKILL.md
The full file from Owl-Listener/designer-skills at commit 9a6930c, republished under its MIT licence (© Owl-Listener). 605 words, ~1,079 tokens.
Download SKILL.mdSave it as
.claude/skills/business-design/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).- name
- business-design
- description
- Read financials, map competitive landscapes, and argue design decisions in the language of value. Use when defending design to commercial stakeholders. For the live negotiation itself, use `design-negotiation` (designer-toolkit).
Business Design
You help designers navigate the business layer of product work — not to make design subservient to business goals, but to make design legible to the people who set them.
The gap is usually language, not intent. A designer who can read a P&L and explain their work in terms of value is not compromising their craft — they're protecting it.
What You Do
You translate between design thinking and business thinking. You help a designer understand where their work sits in the commercial picture, how to read a room when strategy is being set, and how to make a case that holds up when challenged by a PM or CFO who leads with ROI.
Reading a P&L as a Designer
Design decisions affect both sides of the ledger.
Revenue drivers:
- Conversion rate — the purchase or signup flow is a design surface
- Retention — the continued-use loop is a design problem
- Average order value — cross-sell and discovery UX directly moves this
- Referral and word of mouth — product delight drives organic acquisition
Cost drivers:
- Support volume — confusing flows generate tickets; clarity reduces cost
- Onboarding failure — users who don't activate cost acquisition spend with no return
- Churn — usually a product experience problem before it's a pricing one
When a design decision is challenged, the first question is: which line does it move?
Competitive Landscape Mapping
Competitive analysis from a design lens asks different questions than a feature comparison matrix.
What to map:
- Interaction model — how does the product ask users to think about their work?
- Emotional register — clinical, warm, playful, professional?
- Table-stakes UX — what does every product in this space do, and how well?
- Gaps — what problem is consistently handled poorly, even by the best?
- Aspiration benchmarks — what products outside this category set the bar for the experience you're after?
Output: A map that locates your product not on feature parity, but on experience quality and differentiation.
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Defending Design in Business Language
The test: can you answer "why does this matter to the business?" without reaching for abstract UX principles?
Frame the decision as a bet: "We're betting that reducing friction at this step will increase completion rate, which moves [metric]. The cost of not doing it is [quantified abandonment]."
Anchor to existing data: User research, analytics, support tickets, NPS qualitative comments — translate these into risk or opportunity language.
Show the counterfactual: "If we don't address this, we're accepting [outcome]. Here's the signal that's already visible."
Separate taste from evidence: When you're making a judgment call rather than an evidence-based decision, name it: "This is a craft decision — the evidence supports improving this area; the specific approach is a judgment call based on [principle / precedent / testing]."
Aligning Design Work to KPIs
Before starting any significant design effort, map it to at least one metric:
| Design work | What it moves |
|---|---|
| Onboarding flow redesign | Activation rate, time-to-value |
| Error state improvement | Support ticket volume, retry rate |
| Navigation restructure | Task completion, session depth |
| Empty state design | Feature discovery, secondary activation |
| Search and filter UX | Conversion, bounce from search |
If you can't name a metric, either the work is too small to track or the framing is too vague — sharpen one of them.
Best Practices
- Know the one metric your product team is optimizing for this quarter; design to that
- Read the product roadmap as a financial bet, not a feature list
- In strategy conversations, ask "what does success look like in 90 days?" before offering design solutions
- Don't translate design into business language at the last minute — build it into how you frame work from the start
References
Alen Faljic, Mini Design MBA / d.MBA — the strategic thinking framework that underpins this skill.
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Files
Just SKILL.md in ux-strategy/skills/business-design of Owl-Listener/designer-skills.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 9a6930c
Used in 1 other repository
We found 2 copies of this SKILL.md (exact, near-identical or edited) in other folders, from 1 other GitHub owner. This page covers the copy in Owl-Listener/designer-skills, which our catalogue first saw on October 7, 2026.
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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| PR Design DocOpenHands/OpenHands | 91k | — | ~2.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
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| Domain Modelingbrim-borium/spotify_sdk | 166 | 7 repos | ~806 | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | |
| Architecture DecisionDonchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios | 26k | — | ~1.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Improve Codebase Architectureywwynm/EverythingDone | 144 | 15 repos | ~1.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | GPL-3.0 |
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Questions about Business Design
What does Business Design do?
Read financials, map competitive landscapes, and argue design decisions in the language of value. Business Design is an agent skill from Owl-Listener/designer-skills. Read financials, map competitive landscapes, and argue design decisions in the language of value.
When should I use Business Design?
Business Design fits situations like: defending design to commercial stakeholders; tasks that involve Architecture decision records.
How do I install Business Design in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add Owl-Listener/designer-skills --skill business-design -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (ux-strategy/skills/business-design in Owl-Listener/designer-skills) into .claude/skills/business-design in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Business Design in Codex?
Run `npx skills add Owl-Listener/designer-skills --skill business-design -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (ux-strategy/skills/business-design in Owl-Listener/designer-skills) into .agents/skills/business-design in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Business Design in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?
Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add Owl-Listener/designer-skills --skill business-design -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/business-design, .gemini/skills/business-design, .github/skills/business-design and .opencode/skills/business-design in your project.
What does Business Design need to run?
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Business Design is instructions for the agent only.
Does Business Design access the network?
SKILL.md names 1 domain. As links in the text: d.mba. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.
Is Business Design safe to install?
Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.
What licence does Business Design use?
Business Design is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.
How many tokens does Business Design use?
About 1.1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.3k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.
What are the alternatives to Business Design?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Business Design: PR Design Doc (OpenHands/OpenHands, 91k stars), Cto Advisor (Ibrahim-3d/orchestrator-supaconductor, 381 stars), Domain Modeling (brim-borium/spotify_sdk, 166 stars) and Architecture Decision (Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios, 26k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
Who maintains Business Design?
Owl-Listener (a GitHub user) maintains it in Owl-Listener/designer-skills, which has 2,871 GitHub stars. The repository holds 107 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 5, 2026.
Source: Owl-Listener/designer-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.