Two design skills · both proven

banner-design vs brand-guidelines

Both skills were run through Claude twice: once on a fixed brief without the skill, once with it. The briefs differ because each is written for the job the skill claims to do, so compare each skill against its own baseline, then decide which difference matters for your work.

banner-design

Design banners for social media, ads, website heroes, creative assets, and print. Multiple art direction options with optional generated or supplied visuals. Actions: design, create, generate banner. Platforms: Facebook, Twitter/X, LinkedIn, YouTube, Instagram, Google Display, website hero, print. Styles: minimalist, gradient, bold typography, photo-based, illustrated, geometric, retro…

Category: Design
Source: nextlevelbuilder/ui-ux-pro-max-skill
License: MIT
Proof model: claude-opus-5-5
Brief: “Design a set of launch banners for Brightline Coffee's new cold brew cans, as one HTML page showing each banner at its real size: a 1200x628 social ad, a 1080x1080 square post, a 728x90 leaderboard, and a 1600x500 website hero. Price $3.50 a can, in stores June 1.”
Skill commit: bf41cbc

Without the skillWith banner-design

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Without, runWith banner-design, run3 independent runs per side, none selected by hand.

Download the with-skill page

brand-guidelines

Applies Anthropic's official brand colors and typography to any sort of artifact that may benefit from having Anthropic's look-and-feel. Use it when brand colors or style guidelines, visual formatting, or company design standards apply.

Category: Design
Source: anthropics/skills
License: Not stated
Proof model: claude-opus-5-5
Brief: “Build a one-page internal announcement for Relay, a new on-call handoff tool the platform team is rolling out next month. Include a headline, what it replaces, three things that change for engineers, a short timeline, a quote from the team lead, and where to ask questions. Draw any illustrations with inline SVG and CSS.”
Skill commit: dbd4588

Without the skillWith brand-guidelines

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Without, runWith brand-guidelines, run3 independent runs per side, none selected by hand.

Download the with-skill page

We don’t pick a winner for you: the pages are the evidence. Both proofs can be repeated with the brief, model and commit shown above. See alternatives to banner-design or alternatives to brand-guidelines.