The Designer Workflow Stack

Claude skills for designers and UX teams follow the actual design process from start to finish — research, synthesis, concept, system, critique, copy, and delivery. This stack treats Claude as a design collaborator, not just a writing tool.

What these skills do

Design User Research

Plan and run user research: discussion guides, interview protocols, survey design, and the framing that produces useful qualitative data rather than confirmation of what you already believe.

Design Research Synthesis

Turn raw research data into actionable insights — affinity mapping, theme extraction, persona development, and the synthesis formats that translate user findings into design decisions.

UX Researcher Designer

Bridge research and design — translating user needs into interaction patterns, flows, and feature hypotheses. Useful when you’re moving from discovery findings to initial design concepts.

Product Discovery

Structure the discovery process before committing to a design direction — problem framing, opportunity sizing, assumption mapping, and the prioritization logic that determines what’s worth building first.

UI Design System & Design Design System

Build and document design systems: component inventory, token definitions, usage guidelines, and the governance process that keeps a system coherent as it grows. The UI system skill focuses on the component layer; the design system skill covers the broader methodology.

Design Design Critique

Run structured critique sessions — providing and receiving feedback that’s specific, actionable, and tied to design goals rather than personal preference. Covers both self-critique frameworks and team critique facilitation.

Design UX Copy

Write interface copy — labels, error messages, empty states, onboarding flows, tooltips — that communicates clearly at the scale and context of UI. Different from general copywriting: shorter, more constrained, and tied directly to user actions.

Frontend Design

Translate design decisions into production-ready frontend code — component markup, CSS, and the implementation details that make the built product match the design intent.

Design Accessibility Review

Audit designs and interfaces against WCAG standards — color contrast, keyboard navigation, screen reader compatibility, focus management, and the common accessibility patterns that affect real users.

Design Design Handoff

Prepare designs for developer handoff — annotations, specs, redlines, and the documentation that gives engineers what they need to build accurately without constant back-and-forth.

Who this is for

• UX and product designers running end-to-end design work
• Design teams that want consistent process and output quality across projects
• Founders or engineers who need structured design thinking without a full design team

For more skills by the designers audience, see the designers audience page. If you’re building a product from scratch and need design alongside technical execution, see the Indie Hacker Stack.