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Front end design skill is by far the most hyped one, for a good reason I think the most powerful use for it is building design systems quickly It's also a cool and fun way to start a new project
I was relatively late to the party when it came to Claude skills.
I wasn’t focusing much on the front end while building my app, as I had so much functionality that I needed to figure out that was more important to me.
Frankly I just thought that redesigning my app will be time consuming and a major pain in the ass.
But one day I tried the most overhyped skill of all /frontend-design and WOW I was HOOKED.
There’s so many ways in which you can use it, from one off redesigns of elements such as modals, to page redesigns, you name it and front end skill has your back.
What I love about it is that you can request various design options for a page/element and it can quickly churn them out with logic and justification behind each option.
Then you can review them and provide screenshots from pages like Landbook or Behance to further guide your designs.
Anyway these uses are relatively straightforward.
What I haven’t seen in tutorials is:
1) Using /frontend-design to build design systems.
After reaching the design that I actually like, I always ask Claude to create a comprehensive design system that will help me to maintain the design throughout the app and save it as app-design-system.md. This way I can easily reference it.
In some apps I have multiple design systems, one for admin dashboard for example and one for the user facing side of the app.
If you haven’t generated your design system yet I think it’s worth having a go at it.
If you were living under a rock and still haven’t used /frontend-design skill, you’re really missing out.
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