Two design skills · both proven

design-system vs ui-styling

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.

design-system

Token architecture, component specifications, and slide generation. Three-layer tokens (primitive→semantic→component), CSS variables, spacing/typography scales, component specs, strategic slide creation. Use for design tokens, systematic design, brand-compliant presentations.

Category: Design
Source: nextlevelbuilder/ui-ux-pro-max-skill
License: MIT
Proof model: claude-opus-5-5
Brief: “Create the design system for Ledgerline, bookkeeping software for freelance designers, as a single HTML page: color tokens with light and dark values, a type scale, spacing and radius tokens, and live examples of buttons, inputs, a table row, a toast and a card built only from those tokens.”
Skill commit: bf41cbc

Without the skillWith design-system

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

Download the with-skill page

ui-styling

Create beautiful, accessible user interfaces with shadcn/ui components (built on Radix UI + Tailwind), Tailwind CSS utility-first styling, and canvas-based visual designs. Use when building user interfaces, implementing design systems, creating responsive layouts, adding accessible components (dialogs, dropdowns, forms, tables), customizing themes and colors, implementing dark mode, generating…

Category: Design
Source: nextlevelbuilder/ui-ux-pro-max-skill
License: MIT
Proof model: claude-opus-5-5
Brief: “Build the main screen of Quayside, an internal tool a small logistics company uses to track container shipments: a sidebar, a filter bar, a table of 12 shipments with status, ETA and port, a detail panel for the selected shipment with a timeline, and an empty state for when filters match nothing. Make it accessible and keyboard friendly.”
Skill commit: d14efff

Without the skillWith ui-styling

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Without, runWith ui-styling, 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 design-system or alternatives to ui-styling.