UI/UX Pro Max Skill: Design Intelligence for Claude Code

UI/UX Pro Max Skill is an open-source AI skill for Claude Code that adds design intelligence to your code generation workflow. It teaches Claude to output production-ready UI/UX designs across web, mobile, and desktop platforms with awareness of design systems, accessibility, and platform conventions.

Drafted with AI assistance from the source repository below, reviewed by a human editor before publishing.

Source repository nextlevelbuilder/ui-ux-pro-max-skill ↗ 106,756 stars · Python

What it solves

Claude Code can write React, HTML, and mobile code—but without design guidance, it often produces functional layouts that lack polish, accessibility, or platform-specific best practices. Teams then spend hours iterating on spacing, typography, color systems, and responsive behavior.

UI/UX Pro Max Skill embeds design reasoning directly into Claude's code generation. Instead of asking Claude to "make a button," you get Claude reasoning about button states, contrast ratios, touch targets, and design token usage. It's trained to output designs that align with real design systems (Material Design, Apple HIG, Tailwind, etc.) and mobile-first principles.

How it works

The skill works by priming Claude with design system patterns, accessibility rules, and platform conventions. When you ask Claude to build a UI component or page, the skill ensures Claude considers:

Design systems: Tailwind CSS classes, design tokens, spacing scales, typography hierarchies
Platform conventions: iOS vs Android interaction patterns, web accessibility (WCAG), responsive breakpoints
Component states: Hover, focus, disabled, loading, error states for all interactive elements
Mobile-first: Layout and touch-target sizing optimized for mobile, then scaled to desktop

The skill is language-agnostic at the core (Python-based logic), but outputs frontend code in React, HTML/Tailwind, or platform-specific mobile syntax. It integrates with Claude Code's native code-generation flow—no separate tools or plugins required.

Using it in Claude Code

Once installed, the skill acts as a design consultant within Claude's reasoning chain. When you ask Claude Code to build a form, modal, or landing page, invoke the skill to add design intelligence:

Example prompt with the skill
@claude-code Build a user registration form using Tailwind CSS. Use the UI/UX Pro Max Skill to ensure WCAG AA contrast, proper spacing, touch targets, and mobile responsiveness.

Claude then outputs not just HTML/React, but reasoning about why each design choice was made—gap sizes, color selections, focus management, error messaging placement. This is especially useful for:

Design consistency: If you're building multiple screens, the skill ensures they share a cohesive design language
Accessibility-first iteration: Catch contrast and keyboard-navigation issues in the first pass, not QA
Mobile/web code generation: When you need a single design to ship on iOS, Android, and web simultaneously

See our guide on integrating custom skills into Claude Code workflows for more on how skills layer into your prompt chain.

When it falls short

UI/UX Pro Max Skill is strong for component and page-level design—buttons, forms, cards, dashboards. It's weaker on:

Brand-specific design. If you need to match a proprietary brand language or complex animation library, you'll still need a designer in the loop or manual refinement
Complex interactions. Multi-step wizards, gesture-based navigation, or real-time collaborative editing go beyond what the skill can reason about
Design critiques. The skill outputs design, it doesn't evaluate or A/B test designs. You still need user research or design review
Performance optimization. It doesn't profile image sizes, lazy-load strategies, or CSS performance—those are separate concerns

Also: the skill's effectiveness depends on how detailed your prompt is. Vague requests ("make it look nice") won't trigger its full reasoning; specific asks ("design a card with a 3:2 aspect image, title, body text, and two CTA buttons") yield better results.

Getting started

The skill is open-source (MIT licensed) and hosted on GitHub. Installation varies by your Claude Code environment:

Clone and install (local development)
git clone https://github.com/nextlevelbuilder/ui-ux-pro-max-skill.git
cd ui-ux-pro-max-skill
pip install -r requirements.txt

Once installed, reference the skill in your Claude Code prompt with @ui-ux-pro-max or similar syntax (exact invocation depends on your Claude Code setup). The repo README documents supported design systems and platform targets.

Start small: ask Claude Code to build a single card component using the skill, then review the generated code and design rationale. If the output matches your design language, expand to full pages. If not, adjust your prompt to be more specific about constraints ("use only the Tailwind color palette", "target iOS 16+").