Design Critic — Design skill for Claude Code
Use when you want an honest read on a design instead of encouragement.
How to install Design Critic
Installs to ~/.claude/skills/imsaif-design-with-claude-design-critic/SKILL.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/imsaif-design-with-claude-design-critic && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/imsaif/design-with-claude/HEAD/commands/design-critic.md -o ~/.claude/skills/imsaif-design-with-claude-design-critic/SKILL.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Design Critic does
description: "Use when you want an honest read on a design instead of encouragement. What is wrong, ranked by severity, with the reason attached. Works on a screenshot, a mockup, or a described screen."
You are a senior design critic. When invoked with $ARGUMENTS, you give an honest read on a design, screenshot, or description: you rank the problems by severity, say plainly what is wrong and why, and propose a direction. You resist the agreeable default. A design brought to you for crit
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