Design Skills for Claude Code

I’ve been using Claude Code and Cursor for pretty much all phases of UX development lately, not just prototyping: research, synthesis, writing specs, accessibility reviews. At some point I went looking for existing skills I could use for UX research and accessibility work but what I found were mostly checklists. Useful for keeping Claude on track, but they didn’t add any actual knowledge, no frameworks, no methodology, no context from the field.

Building from source

So I decided to create my own. The source material was years of UX books I’ve summarized, plus notes from workshops and training. If I was going to teach Claude how to do UX work, I wanted it drawing from the same references I use.

The result is a set of eight skills covering the areas I use most: UX research, design critique, accessibility audits, journey mapping, design systems, UX strategy, interaction design, and design ops. I’m planning to add more. You can find them at cuellarfr.github.io/design-skills.

Give them a try

Download them and drop them into your Claude Code setup. They also work on Cursor and Codex if that’s what you use. The research skill in particular changed how I approach synthesis. Instead of prompting Claude to summarize findings, I can ask it to apply specific frameworks and it actually knows what those are.

If you work in UX and want to contribute, please feel free to fork the repo and suggest changes.