Agent skill

Design Review

by plugin87 in plugin87/ux-ui-agent-skills

Review or audit a design/UI across 6 weighted dimensions with Nielsen's 10 heuristics and a prioritized findings table.

MITAuto-check passedFrontend & Design

Install Design Review

skills CLI
$ npx skills add plugin87/ux-ui-agent-skills --skill design-review -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install plugin87/ux-ui-agent-skills design-review --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/plugin87/ux-ui-agent-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/design-review .claude/skills/design-review && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.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/

Facts

Skill name
design-review
GitHub stars
1.5k
Token cost
~437 tokens
SKILL.md length
169 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
23
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Review or audit a design/UI across 6 weighted dimensions with Nielsen's 10 heuristics and a prioritized findings table.

  • Works in 6 steps: Read… → Gather context: the screen(s)/flow,… → Score the 6 dimensions (Visual Hierarchy… → …
  • The user wants a design critique
  • SKILL.md covers Steps and Output
  • Calls npx

What it does

Design Review is an agent skill from plugin87/ux-ui-agent-skills. Review or audit a design/UI across 6 weighted dimensions with Nielsen's 10 heuristics and a prioritized findings table. Use when the user wants a design critique, quality score, heuristic evaluation, or audit of an existing screen, page, or product before/after build.

Its SKILL.md is about 440 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 Frontend & Design, covering Design review and critique and UX design. The repository describes itself as: Turn Claude into a senior design architect: DTCG tokens, 52 components, WCAG 2.2 AA-AAA, 138 design systems, any-framework code, and 50 objective gates that fail the build… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • The user wants a design critique
  • Heuristic evaluation
  • Audit of an existing screen
  • Product before/after build

Example prompts

  • “/design-review”

Requirements

  • Node.js

Workflow steps

6 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Read ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../../workflows/design-review.md (rubric, scoring guide, Nielsen heuristics, process).
  2. Gather context: the screen(s)/flow, target users, platform, constraints.
  3. Score the 6 dimensions (Visual Hierarchy 20%, Consistency 20%, Accessibility 20%, Usability 20%, Responsiveness 10%, Performance 10%)…
  4. Run the accessibility lens with ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../../accessibility/wcag-checklist.md; use…
  5. Check against the anti-slop tells in ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../../taste/design-taste.md (Banned Defaults checklist).
  6. Apply Nielsen's 10 heuristics; flag violations by number.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 8e73a21. 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

    Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

    • npx

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md. Its commands use npx, which can reach the network depending on how they are called.

    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

Design Review loads about 437 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 71 tokens; SKILL.md has 169 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~71
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~437

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 plugin87/ux-ui-agent-skills at commit 8e73a21, republished under its MIT licence (© plugin87). 169 words, ~437 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/design-review/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
design-review
description
Review or audit a design/UI across 6 weighted dimensions with Nielsen's 10 heuristics and a prioritized findings table. Use when the user wants a design critique, quality score, heuristic evaluation, or audit of an existing screen, page, or product before/after build.

Skill: Design Review

Step 0 — is the kit here? This skill reads files from the kit. Check once: ls ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../../tokens >/dev/null 2>&1 && echo KIT_OK || echo KIT_MISSING On KIT_MISSING only the skill folders were installed, which is what npx skills add does. Say so plainly, point the user at npx ux-ui-agent-skills init or the plugin install, and stop. Do not guess the contents of a file you could not open.

Run a structured, scored review.

Steps

  1. Read ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../../workflows/design-review.md (rubric, scoring guide, Nielsen heuristics, process).
  2. Gather context: the screen(s)/flow, target users, platform, constraints.
  3. Score the 6 dimensions (Visual Hierarchy 20%, Consistency 20%, Accessibility 20%, Usability 20%, Responsiveness 10%, Performance 10%); compute the weighted overall.
  4. Run the accessibility lens with ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../../accessibility/wcag-checklist.md; use ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../../scripts/contrast.py for any color-pair doubts.
  5. Check against the anti-slop tells in ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../../taste/design-taste.md (Banned Defaults checklist).
  6. Apply Nielsen's 10 heuristics; flag violations by number.

Output

  • The 6-dimension scored table + overall score.
  • A prioritized findings table: # · Severity (Critical → Major → Minor → Enhancement) · Finding · Recommendation.
  • Concrete, token-referenced fixes.

© plugin87, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in .claude/skills/design-review of plugin87/ux-ui-agent-skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 8e73a21

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Questions about Design Review

What does Design Review do?

Review or audit a design/UI across 6 weighted dimensions with Nielsen's 10 heuristics and a prioritized findings table. Design Review is an agent skill from plugin87/ux-ui-agent-skills. Review or audit a design/UI across 6 weighted dimensions with Nielsen's 10 heuristics and a prioritized findings table.

When should I use Design Review?

Design Review fits situations like: the user wants a design critique; heuristic evaluation; audit of an existing screen; product before/after build.

How do I install Design Review in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add plugin87/ux-ui-agent-skills --skill design-review -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (.claude/skills/design-review in plugin87/ux-ui-agent-skills) into .claude/skills/design-review in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Design Review in Codex?

Run `npx skills add plugin87/ux-ui-agent-skills --skill design-review -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (.claude/skills/design-review in plugin87/ux-ui-agent-skills) into .agents/skills/design-review in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Design Review 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 plugin87/ux-ui-agent-skills --skill design-review -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/design-review, .gemini/skills/design-review, .github/skills/design-review and .opencode/skills/design-review in your project.

What does Design Review need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Design Review needs the command-line tools its instructions call (npx). Our summary lists: Node.js.

Does Design Review access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Its commands use npx, which can reach the network depending on how they are called. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Design Review 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 Design Review use?

Design Review 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 Design Review use?

About 437 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 1.7k 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 Design Review?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Design Review: Om UX Review PR (go-musicfox/go-musicfox, 2.6k stars), Design Review (jezweb/claude-skills, 1.1k stars), I Critique (boussadjra/vuestrata, 111 stars) and Design Critique (mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills, 1.4k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Design Review?

plugin87 (a GitHub user) maintains it in plugin87/ux-ui-agent-skills, which has 1,546 GitHub stars. The repository holds 23 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 8, 2026.

Source: plugin87/ux-ui-agent-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.