# Design & Taste — a merged skill for Claude Code / Cowork

One installable skill that gives Claude elite frontend design taste: it builds interfaces that feel premium instead of generic, with stronger typography, color, spacing, motion, component states, and accessibility — and a built-in critique pass so it doesn't stop at the first draft.

## Where it comes from

This is a **synthesis of three community design skills**, deduplicated and merged. All three share the same anti-slop, taste-first lineage; each contributed its unique strength:

| Source | What it contributed to this skill | |--------|-----------------------------------| | [emilkowalski/skill](https://github.com/emilkowalski/skill) (`emil-design-eng`) | The craft philosophy ("taste is trained", "unseen details compound") and the deep motion/animation craft → `reference/motion.md` | | [pbakaus/impeccable](https://github.com/pbakaus/impeccable) | The crisp design rules, the OKLCH color strategy, the **absolute anti-slop bans**, and the modern interaction-states reference → core rules + `reference/anti-slop.md` + `reference/interaction-states.md` | | [leonxlnx/taste-skill](https://github.com/leonxlnx/taste-skill) (`design-taste-frontend`) | Reading the brief before designing, the three intensity dials, honest design-system selection, GSAP scroll skeletons, and the full pre-flight matrix → `reference/design-systems.md` + `reference/pre-flight.md` |

Rather than install three overlapping skills (they repeat the same mindset), this combines them: one self-contained `SKILL.md` core plus five focused reference files pulled faithfully from the originals.

## Structure

``` design-taste/ ├── SKILL.md # Synthesized core: philosophy, Iron Law, brief-read, core rules, file index └── reference/ ├── motion.md # Animation craft (emil): easing, springs, clip-path, stagger, perf, Sonner ├── interaction-states.md # Components (impeccable): 8 states, focus rings, dialog/p