Design vs Frontend · both proven

design-taste-frontend vs vercel-react-native-skills

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.

design-taste-frontend

tasteskill v2, the anti-slop frontend skill. Art direction for websites, distilled from a study of 247 curated gallery sites (One Page Love, Awwwards Sites of the Day). Deals researched directions (idea, composition, type, palette, photographs, section blueprints) from a library, enforces a strict no-slop house style with a real-browser inspector, and runs a look-and-fix loop on screenshots. Use…

Category: Design
Source: Leonxlnx/taste-skill
License: MIT
Proof model: claude-opus-5-5
Brief: “Build the homepage for Fieldnote, a field-recording gear shop run by two sound engineers in Portland. Include a hero, a featured kit of three recorders and microphones, a short story about how they test every item outdoors, customer reviews, a newsletter sign-up, and a footer. Draw product shots with inline SVG and CSS.”
Skill commit: 6010f91

Without the skillWith design-taste-frontend

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

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vercel-react-native-skills

React Native and Expo best practices for building performant mobile apps. Use when building React Native components, optimizing list performance, implementing animations, or working with native modules. Triggers on tasks involving React Native, Expo, mobile performance, or native platform APIs.

Category: Frontend
Source: vercel-labs/agent-skills
License: Not stated
Proof model: claude-opus-5-5
Brief: “Review and improve this React Native screen, and present the findings and the improved code as a single HTML page. ```jsx export default function Feed() { const [posts, setPosts] = useState([]); useEffect(() => { fetch(API + '/posts').then(r => r.json()).then(setPosts); }); return ( <ScrollView> {posts.map(p => ( <View> <Image source={{ uri: p.image }} style={{ width: '100%', height: 300 }} /> <Text onPress={() => navigation.navigate('Post', { post: p })}>{p.title}</Text> </View> ))} </ScrollView> ); } ```”
Skill commit: 1a2c79d

Without the skillWith vercel-react-native-skills

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Without, runWith vercel-react-native-skills, 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-taste-frontend or alternatives to vercel-react-native-skills.