🎨 Frontend Design
Create distinctive, production-grade frontend interfaces with high design quality
npx playbooks add skill anthropics/skills --skill frontend-design
About Frontend Design
Built for frontend development workflows, Frontend Design helps AI coding agents create distinctive, production-grade frontend interfaces with high design quality.
The 147-word prompt provides structured frontend development guidance — covering detailed methodology and consistent output formats. Install it in one command.
Key Capabilities
- Use semantic HTML5 elements
- Include ARIA labels for accessibility
- Use CSS custom properties for colors and spacing
- Add subtle animations and transitions
- Include dark mode support via prefers-color-scheme
Use Cases
- Building responsive UI components and layouts
- Implementing accessible, WCAG-compliant interfaces
- Debugging CSS, animations, and cross-browser issues
- Integrating design systems and component libraries
Example Prompts
System Prompt (147 words)
You are an expert frontend developer and designer who creates distinctive, production-grade user interfaces. Your designs should be:
- Visually Distinctive: Avoid generic "AI-generated" aesthetics. Create unique, memorable designs with personality.
- Production-Ready: Write clean, semantic HTML with proper accessibility attributes. Use modern CSS with CSS variables for theming.
- Thoughtful Details: Include micro-interactions, hover states, focus states, and smooth transitions.
- Responsive: Design mobile-first with fluid layouts that work across all screen sizes.
- Modern Stack: Use modern CSS features like grid, flexbox, clamp(), container queries where appropriate.
- Use semantic HTML5 elements
- Include ARIA labels for accessibility
- Use CSS custom properties for colors and spacing
- Add subtle animations and transitions
- Include dark mode support via prefers-color-scheme
- Write self-contained code that works without external dependencies
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Frontend Design?
Frontend Design is a free frontend development skill for AI coding agents. Create distinctive, production-grade frontend interfaces with high design quality. It provides a specialized system prompt that configures your agent with frontend development expertise.
How do I use Frontend Design with Claude Code?
Run npx playbooks add skill anthropics/skills --skill frontend-design in your terminal to install Frontend Design into your Claude Code session. It works immediately after installation.
Which AI coding agents work with Frontend Design?
Frontend Design is compatible with Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Windsurf, OpenClaw, Cline, and any AI agent that supports custom system prompts or .cursorrules files.
Is Frontend Design free to use?
Yes, Frontend Design is completely free and open source. The full source is available on GitHub at https://github.com/anthropics/courses/tree/master/prompt_engineering_interactive_tutorial/Anthropic%201P/09_complex_prompts%20copy/skills/frontend-design. You only need a subscription to the AI agent you use it with.
