design-everyday-things

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

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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", "fault tolerance", "mental model", "mapping", or "seven stages of action". Also trigger when diagnosing why users make mistakes, reducing product complexity, or improving error messages and feedback systems. Covers the gulfs of execution and evaluation. For usability scoring, see ux-heuristics. For iOS-specific patterns, see ios-hig-design.

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/wondelai-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", "fault tolerance", "mental model", "mapping", or "seven stages of action". Also trigger when diagnosing why users make mistakes, reducing product complexity, or improving error messages and feedback systems.

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

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

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/wondelai-design-everyday-things/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\wondelai-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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