ClaudSkills / General / business-ops

Hig Patterns

Category: General  ·  Sub-category: business-ops  ·  Last updated:
Apple Human Interface Guidelines interaction and UX patterns. Use this skill when the user asks about "onboarding flow", "user onboarding", "app launch", "loading state", "drag and drop", "search pattern", "settings design", "notifications", "modality", "multitasking", "feedback pattern", "haptics", "undo redo", "file management", data entry, sharing, collaboration, full screen, audio, video, haptic feedback, ratings, printing, help, or account management in Apple apps. Also use when the user says "how should onboarding work", "my app takes too long to load", "should I use a modal here", "how do I handle errors", "when should I ask for permissions", "how to show progress", or "what's the right way to confirm a delete". Cross-references: hig-foundations for underlying principles, hig-platforms for platform specifics, hig-components-layout for navigation, hig-components-content for data display.

From the source SKILL.md

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What this skill does

Hig Patterns is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the business-ops sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/hig-patterns/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

When to invoke it: use when the user says "how should onboarding work", "my app takes too long to load", "should I use a modal here", "how do I handle errors", "when should I ask for permissions", "how to show progress", or "what's the right way to confirm a delete". Cross-references: hig-foundations for underlying principles, hig-platforms for platform specifics, hig-components-layout for navigation, hig-components-content for data display.

Who uses this skill

The Hig Patterns skill is built for Claude Code users and developers across all disciplines looking for general-purpose AI assistance. It is part of the open ClaudSkills registry, a community-curated catalog of 56,000+ capabilities you can install for Claude Code — the Claude CLI agent.

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/hig-patterns
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/hig-patterns/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/hig-patterns/SKILL.md

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

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

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