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Apple's design skill for Claude

Someone turned Apple's entire design philosophy into a Claude skill, and it is free.

Don't use it only to build yet another site from scratch. Give it the site you already have, and it will go through the fonts, the spacing, the hierarchy and the layout, and find every small decision that makes it look cheap.

You are not copying Apple. You take its principles and apply them to your business.

What you need

Claude Code

The skill installs into Claude Code and runs from there.

Your site

A link to it, or its files if you built it with Claude.

No cost

The skill is completely free.

Install the skill

Open Claude Code, send it the link and ask it to install the skill. Copy this request:

The request

Install this skill for me: https://github.com/dickwu/apple-design-skill

Hand it your site

Once it is installed, give Claude your site and write:

The request

Go through my site using Apple's design principles, find every small decision that makes it look cheap, and fix them.

What it looks at

The skill reads 123 pages of Apple's official design guidelines before it writes a word, then works through your site layer by layer:

Apple's design principles

Eight principles, including simplicity, familiarity, flexibility and craft.

Accessibility

Text size, color contrast, button size and screen reader support, all with the exact numbers.

Visual design

Color, fonts, layout, icons and motion. And the key question: does the site have a point of view, or does it look like another template?

Words on the page

Buttons that say what happens when you click them, and error messages that tell people what to do.

Why it works

Every note comes with what, why and how to fix it.

Claude points at the problem, explains which Apple principle it breaks, and writes the fix. No more "looks fine".

More requests worth trying

It looks generic

The request

My site looks generic. Give it a point of view without breaking Apple's design principles.

Accessibility check

The request

Check my site against Apple's accessibility guidelines and tell me what to fix first.

Signup flow

The request

Go through the signup flow on my site and tell me whether it is clear, and what can be shortened.

Same site. Without the small decisions that make it look cheap.

Install it once, and let Claude go through every page.