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AI Design Field Guide — AI skill for Claude Code

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46 ways to work with AI design tools — Claude Design, Figma Make, Stitch, Canva, or anything.

How to install AI Design Field Guide

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open Owl-Listener/ai-design-field-guide and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

What AI Design Field Guide does

46 ways to work with AI design tools — Claude Design, Figma Make, Stitch, Canva, or anything. The thinking applies regardless of which tool you have open.

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README

AI Design Field Guide

**46 ways to work with AI design tools. Works with Claude Design, Figma Make, Stitch, Canva, or whatever you're using.**

The canvas was never the design. Charles and Ray Eames knew this in 1949. Design is a plan for arranging elements to accomplish a particular purpose — not a rendering, not a deliverable, not a beautifully crafted file.

AI design tools have made this visible in a way nothing else could. When you describe your intent and an artifact materialises, it becomes impossible to pretend the canvas was doing the thinking. The conversation was. Everything after is rendering.

This field guide is for designers who want to work with AI design tools the way a designer would — not just generate things, but think things. It is organised into five clusters that follow the arc of real design work. Use it before you open any tool. Use it while you're in it. Use it when something is going wrong and you can't name why.

**Not prompts. Not templates. Ways to work.**

Five questions in the Eames tradition

Run these before you open any design tool. Five questions. Ten minutes.

The Eames never wrote these down as a checklist — but they are drawn directly from how the Eames worked, and from their definition of design as "a plan for arranging elements to accomplish a particular purpose." The questions are ours. The philosophy is theirs.

#	Question	Why it matters
01	What is the purpose?	Not "make a dashboard." What specific outcome does this achieve? For whom? In what moment of their day?
02	Who, exactly?	Name a real person. Not "users." The person implies the aesthetic. The aesthetic does not imply the person.
03	What are you working within?	Brand, time, technology, budget. Constraints are not obstacles. They are the shape of the solution.
04	What is the one thing?	Three seconds. One thing to understand, feel, or do. Not three. One.
05	How will you know it work