How do I install the Nielsen Usability Heuristics Claude Code skill?

Install via the ClaudSkills desktop app (one click) or copy SKILL.md from the source repository to ~/.claude/skills/nielsen-usability-heuristics/SKILL.md and restart Claude Code. Both flows are detailed at https://claudskills.com/install/.

Is this skill free to install?

Yes. ClaudSkills is an open registry — every skill keeps its source repository's license, and manual install via copy is free. ClaudSkills Pro ($9/mo, $79/yr, or $149 one-time) adds one-click install via the desktop app and a multi-signal Quality Score.

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Nielsen Usability Heuristics

Category: General · Sub-category: general-misc · Last updated: 2026-05-21

type:audit type:review

UI design and review should apply Nielsen's 10 Usability Heuristics — the foundational principles for evaluating and improving usability. Use when auditing an interface, designing interaction flows, writing error messages, or reviewing any UI for usability issues.

From the source SKILL.md

Foundational principles for evaluating and designing usable interfaces. Apply these as a review checklist and as design constraints from the start — not only as a post-hoc audit tool.

What this skill does

Nielsen Usability Heuristics is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the general-misc sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/nielsen-usability-heuristics/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

When to invoke it: Use when auditing an interface, designing interaction flows, writing error messages, or reviewing any UI for usability issues.

Who uses this skill

The Nielsen Usability Heuristics Claude Code skill is built for Claude Code users and developers across all disciplines looking for general-purpose AI assistance. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 69,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).

How to install

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Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/nielsen-usability-heuristics
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/nielsen-usability-heuristics/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/nielsen-usability-heuristics/SKILL.md

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

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

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Attribution & license

Source: https://github.com/dembrandt/dembrandt-skills/blob/HEAD/skills/nielsen-usability-heuristics/SKILL.md
License: MIT
Author: dembrandt

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Nielsen Usability Heuristics

From the source SKILL.md

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Manual install (2 steps)

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