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Design Review skill

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.

$npx skills add plugin87/ux-ui-agent-skills --skill design-review
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Updated
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License
MIT

Install Design Review

Pick your agent. Every command is ready to paste.

$npx skills add plugin87/ux-ui-agent-skills --skill design-review

The open skills CLI detects your agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and 70+ more) and installs to the right folder. Add -g to install globally.

01

Install it

Run the command above, or upload the folder in Claude.

02

Ask naturally

Describe the task. Your agent loads design-review when the request matches its description.

03

Name it if needed

If it does not trigger, say “use the design-review skill”. In Codex, type $design-review.

The skill itself

SKILL.md

GitHub

Skill: Design Review

Requirements

This skill needs the full UX/UI Agent Skills kit: the gates, the references and the design-system library. Install it with npx ux-ui-agent-skills@3.1.0 init or as the Claude Code plugin. npx skills@1.7.6 add copies the skill folder and nothing else. Installed that way, this skill runs in guidance-only mode: no gate runs, so it gives no verdict.

Step 0: is the kit here? Check once: ls ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../../tokens >/dev/null 2>&1 && echo KIT_OK || echo KIT_MISSING On KIT_MISSING, open your reply with: "Guidance-only mode: the UX/UI Agent Skills kit is not installed here, so no gate ran and nothing below is measured." Then work from this file and general practice, under three rules. Do not guess or cite the contents of a kit file you could not open. State no measured number (no contrast ratio, no N/N, no "passes WCAG"): write "not verified" where one would go. End with a line Skipped (kit not installed): that names every gate script this file tells you to run, then the install command above.

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.

Tips for Design Review

  • • Start a fresh session after installing so your agent picks up the new skill.
  • • It is part of a pack with 26 skills. Install only the ones you need with --skill to keep triggers precise.
  • • If two skills overlap, mention the one you want by name.

Questions about Design Review

What does the Design Review skill do?

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.

How do I install Design Review?

Run "npx skills add plugin87/ux-ui-agent-skills --skill design-review" in your project. The skills CLI installs it for Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and 70+ other agents. In Claude on the web, upload the skill folder as a ZIP under Customize > Skills.

Does Design Review work in Cursor and Codex?

Yes. Design Review uses the open SKILL.md format, so it works in Claude Code, Claude, Cursor, OpenAI Codex, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and other agents that support agent skills.

Is Design Review free?

Design Review is open source on GitHub under the MIT license. It is free to install; check the license before commercial use.

Who made Design Review?

Design Review is published by plugin87 in the plugin87/ux-ui-agent-skills repository, together with 25 other skills.

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