Two design skills · both proven

design-taste-frontend-v1 vs frontend-design

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-taste-frontend-v1

The original taste-skill v1, kept for projects that depend on its exact behaviour. Opt-in: it runs only when called by name.

Category: Design
Source: Leonxlnx/taste-skill · 98,855 stars
License: MIT
Proof model: claude-opus-5-5
Brief: “Build the homepage for Northwind, a two-person brand and web design studio. Include a hero, a selected work section with four projects, services, how they work, a short founder note, and a contact section. Draw any project thumbnails with inline SVG and CSS.”
Skill commit: a9c73c3

frontend-design

Guidance for distinctive, intentional visual design when building new UI or reshaping an existing one. Helps with aesthetic direction, typography, and making choices that don't read as templated defaults.

Category: Design
Source: anthropics/skills · 181,998 stars
License: Not stated
Proof model: claude-opus-5-5
Brief: “Build the marketing landing page for Halcyon, a calm AI calendar app for busy founders. Include a hero with a product mockup of the app, a short row of customer logos, three feature sections that each show the product, a customer quote, a pricing teaser, and a footer. Draw any illustrations or product shots with inline SVG and CSS.”
Skill commit: dbd4588

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-taste-frontend-v1 or alternatives to frontend-design.