Design vs Frontend · both proven

frontend-design 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.

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
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

Without the skillWith frontend-design

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