Design Everyday Things

Quality score: 70/100 · Category: Product · Sub-category: ux-research

Analyze and apply foundational design principles: affordances, signifiers, constraints, feedback, and conceptual models. Use when the user mentions "why is this confusing", "affordance", "error prevention", "discoverability", "human-centered design", or "fault tolerance". Covers the gulfs of execution and evaluation. For usability scoring, see ux-heuristics. For iOS-specific patterns, see ios-hig-design. Trigger with 'design', 'everyday', 'things'.

What this skill does

Design Everyday Things is a production-ready Claude Code skill (quality score 70/100) in the ux-research sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/design-everyday-things/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

When to invoke it: Use when the user mentions "why is this confusing", "affordance", "error prevention", "discoverability", "human-centered design", or "fault tolerance". Covers the gulfs of execution and evaluation.

Who uses this skill

The Design Everyday Things skill is built for product managers, product designers, and cross-functional teams planning, shipping, and measuring product features. It is part of the open ClaudSkills registry, a community-curated catalog of 15,000+ capabilities you can install for Claude Code — the Claude CLI agent.

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/design-everyday-things
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/design-everyday-things/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/design-everyday-things/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/design-everyday-things/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/design-everyday-things/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\design-everyday-things\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

Pro

One-click install via the desktop app

The ClaudSkills desktop app installs any skill directly into ~/.claude/skills/ with one click — no terminal required. Pro starts at $9/mo or $149 lifetime.

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