Design vs Frontend · both proven

banner-design vs vercel-react-best-practices

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. They are in different categories, so this is a choice of job, not a head-to-head on the same job.

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.

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vercel-react-best-practices

React and Next.js performance optimization guidelines from Vercel Engineering. This skill should be used when writing, reviewing, or refactoring React/Next.js code to ensure optimal performance patterns. Triggers on tasks involving React components, Next.js pages, data fetching, bundle optimization, or performance improvements.

Category: Frontend
Source: vercel-labs/agent-skills
License: Not stated
Proof model: claude-opus-5-5
Brief: “Here is a slow Next.js product list page. It fetches products, reviews and inventory one after another in a client component with useEffect, renders 500 product cards at once, imports the full lodash library, and re-sorts the list on every render. Rewrite it following current React and Next.js performance practice, and present the result as a single HTML page that shows the new code, explains each change, and estimates the impact of each.”
Skill commit: 063bee9

Without the skillWith vercel-react-best-practices

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Without, runWith vercel-react-best-practices, run3 independent runs per side, none selected by hand.

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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 vercel-react-best-practices.