ui-system skill is no longer a placeholder. Full design-system and interaction-design interviews with branching, defaults, batched question clusters, and an 'accept default / skip' protocol so users move through fast when they have taste and patient when they don't. Design system interview covers: visual posture, color (with WCAG contrast verification before writing), typography, spacing, radii, shadows, density, visual motion, components, theming, and accessibility tokens (focus ring, hit targets). Interaction design interview covers: input model, state-surface declarations per action class, motion posture and triggers, breakpoints, i18n, four state postures (empty/loading/error/offline), time formatting, keyboard policy, optimistic-update strategy with rollback and conflict resolution, gestures, focus management, notification patterns, selection, and drag-and-drop. Reference banks for "make it look like Linear/Notion/Stripe/etc." translate well-known products into starting tokens — user still confirms each value, no silent invention. Templates expanded to hold the full output: - design-system/SKILL.md grew sections for accessibility tokens, density, dark-mode mapping, contrast verification, theming variants - design-system/tokens.ts now exports color (light + dark), typography (family/size/weight/line-height/letter-spacing), spacing + density- aware padding tokens, radii, shadows, motion (durations + easings), z-index scale, breakpoints, hit-target minimums - design-system/components.md gained anatomy/state/a11y coverage for 10 primitives plus an "adding a new component" workflow and a "patterns to avoid" list (nested cards, color-only meaning, etc.) - interaction-design/SKILL.md gained sections for optimistic updates, conflict resolution, gestures, focus management, notification patterns, selection/multi-select, and drag-and-drop Hard rules: never invent on the user's behalf; <TBD> instead. Verify contrast before writing color tokens. Always declare prefers-reduced- motion as honored. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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name, description
| name | description |
|---|---|
| <SLUG>-design-system | Design system for the <PROJECT NAME> project. Color tokens, typography, spacing, radii, shadows, density, motion, accessibility tokens, and component vocabulary. Load and apply whenever building UI for this project — generating mocks, writing components, picking colors, configuring Tailwind, styling native screens, building themes, designing CSS, or making any visual decision. The canonical visual reference for this project; if anything visible is being touched, this skill should be in context. Pairs with <SLUG>-interaction-design. |
design system
Status: <draft | reviewed | locked> Generated by Composer's
ui-systemphase. Re-running that phase updates this skill (with confirmation on overwrite).
How to use this skill
When generating or editing UI for this project — a mock, a real
component, a theme, a CSS file — read this SKILL.md and tokens.ts
first, then use the tokens. Never hardcode visual values. Don't
introduce new components without proposing them in components.md.
Sidecar files in this skill directory:
tokens.ts— machine-readable token export. Import in mocks/code.components.md— component vocabulary, anatomy, states.
Visual posture
<TBD: visual posture sentence>
Color
Brand
- Primary:
<#hex>— - Secondary (if any):
<#hex>—
Neutrals
- Tone: <warm | cool | true>
- Scale: 50 / 100 / 200 / 300 / 400 / 500 / 600 / 700 / 800 / 900 / 950
- See
tokens.tsfor hex values.
Semantic
| Role | Light | Dark (if dark mode) |
|---|---|---|
| Success | <#hex> |
<#hex> |
| Warning | <#hex> |
<#hex> |
| Error | <#hex> |
<#hex> |
| Info | <#hex> |
<#hex> |
Dark mode
- Posture: <yes | no | system-following>
- Token mapping: see
tokens.tscolorDark(if applicable)
Accessibility contrast
- Target: WCAG <AA | AAA>
- Verified pairings (against
neutral.50light bg,neutral.950dark bg):- body text: — ✅
- UI components: — ✅
Typography
- Display family: , weights
- Body family: <name | "(same as display)">, weights
- Mono family (if used):
- Scale base: , ratio <1.125 | 1.2 | 1.25 | 1.333 | 1.5>
- Sizes: see
tokens.tsfontSize— xs / sm / base / lg / xl / 2xl / 3xl / 4xl - Line-height:
- Tight (display):
- Normal (body):
- Relaxed (long-form):
- Letter-spacing (if customized):
Spacing
- Base unit: <4px | 8px>
- Scale (in base units): 0, 0.5, 1, 1.5, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12, 16, 24
- See
tokens.tsspacingfor px values.
Radii
- Posture: <sharp | tight | medium | pillowy | mixed>
sm·md·lg·pill9999px ·full9999px
Shadows & elevation
- Posture: <flat | subtle | generous>
- Scale:
xs / sm / md / lg / xl— seetokens.tsshadow - (Or "no shadows in this system" if posture is flat — use borders for elevation hierarchy.)
Density
- Default: <comfortable | cozy | compact>
- Padding tokens: see
tokens.tspadding—tight / default / loose - Component impact: list components whose default density differs from the global default.
Visual motion
- Default duration: (token:
motion.duration.default) - Default easing: (token:
motion.easing.standard) - Reduced-motion fallback: linear, instant where appropriate
Behavioral motion (when things animate, what triggers them) is in the interaction-design skill, not here.
Accessibility tokens
- Focus ring: <style — solid 2px brand at 60% opacity / etc.>
- Focus ring color token:
color.focus - Focus offset:
- Hit-target minimum: 44×44px (mobile) / 32×32px (desktop pointer)
- Contrast targets: WCAG <AA | AAA> — body 4.5:1, UI 3:1
Components
See components.md in this directory for the full vocabulary, anatomy,
and state coverage. The TL;DR list of primitives:
- Button (primary / secondary / ghost / destructive / link)
- Input (text / textarea / select / checkbox / radio / toggle)
- Card / Surface
- Badge / Tag
- Avatar
- Tooltip
- Modal / Drawer / Popover (behavioral patterns in interaction-design skill)
- Tabs
- Menu / Dropdown
- Toast / Notification
Plus project-specific components from ia.md: see components.md.
Theming variants
- Multi-brand / tenant theming: <yes | no — typically no for v1>
- Theme-switching mechanism (if applicable): <CSS variables / data-theme attr / etc.>
TBD on return
- <TBD: ...>