Two design skills · both proven

design-taste-frontend vs web-design-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.

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.

Download the with-skill page

web-design-guidelines

Review UI code for Web Interface Guidelines compliance. Use when asked to "review my UI", "check accessibility", "audit design", "review UX", or "check my site against best practices".

Category: Design
Source: vercel-labs/agent-skills
License: Not stated
Proof model: claude-opus-5-5
Brief: “Build the sign-up page for Lantern, a weekly newsletter on independent software businesses. Include a hero that sells the newsletter, a preview of a recent issue, a sign-up form with name, email and a topics checklist, clear inline error and success states, three reader quotes, and a footer. Draw any imagery with inline SVG and CSS.”
Skill commit: 063bee9

Without the skillWith web-design-guidelines

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Without, runWith web-design-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 design-taste-frontend or alternatives to web-design-guidelines.