rastian

Design Thinking Skills — Design skill for Claude Code

Design community

A Claude Code skill that guides any team through Design Thinking, from user research to shipped solution.

How to install Design Thinking Skills

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

What Design Thinking Skills does

A Claude Code skill that guides any team through Design Thinking, from user research to shipped solution. Includes phase-by-phase methods, templates, facilitation scripts, and role-specific guidance for designers, founders, and business leaders.

Alternatives in Design

Claude Agent Teams UI — You're the CTO, agents are your team 645 ★
Design Expert — Apply expert UX/UI design thinking to design, redesign, enhance, or fix any interface element with meticulous 348 ★
Design Reel — Record naksha's design team working — turn a /design run into a share-able vertical + landscape video reel (th 309 ★

README

  ◈ EMPATHIZE → DEFINE → IDEATE → PROTOTYPE → TEST → IMPLEMENT ◈

Design Thinking

**Human-centered design methodology, from user research to shipped solution.** Built for product designers, UX researchers, service designers, entrepreneurs, and business leaders.

---

Install

**Add to an existing Claude Code project:**

# Clone into your project's .claude/skills directory
git clone https://github.com/65ping/design-thinking.git .claude/skills/design-thinking

**Or install globally** (available across all your projects):

git clone https://github.com/65ping/design-thinking.git ~/.claude/skills/design-thinking

Claude Code will detect the skill automatically. No configuration needed.

What It Does

This skill turns Claude into a Design Thinking coach, facilitator and artifact generator. Tell Claude what phase you're in and what you need: it adapts to your role, context, and timeline.

"I need to plan empathy interviews for a mobile banking redesign"
"Help me synthesize these research notes into a problem statement"
"We're running a 90-minute remote ideation session, what method should we use?"
"I'm a founder, how do I validate my idea before I build anything?"
"We're redesigning a healthcare service, where do we start?"

Claude responds with structured guidance, ready-to-use artifacts, facilitation scripts, or design critique, all grounded in the methodology.

The Six Phases

#	Phase	Core Question	Output
1	🔍 Empathize	Who are these people and what do they actually experience?	Empathy maps, research insights
2	🎯 Define	What is the real problem worth solving?	POV statement, HMW questions
3	💡 Ideate	What are all possible ways to solve this?	Solution concepts, decision rationale
4	🔧 Prototype	What is the cheapest version we can learn from?	Prototype artifact (any fidelity)
5	🧪 **Test