Design Is

Design Is is a Frontend skill for Claude Code, published by thedotmack in claude-mem.

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Install Design Is

Copy Design Is into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/thedotmack/claude-mem/tree/main/plugin/skills/design-is ~/.claude/skills/design-is

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/thedotmack/claude-mem.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: plugin/skills/design-is/SKILL.md in thedotmack/claude-mem
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/design-is
Collection: One of 22 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Frontend — 567 skills

What Design Is does

Design Is audits a design against Dieter Rams' ten 'Good design is...' principles, scores each with evidence, and hands off a ready /make-plan prompt for new, refine, or redesign outcomes. Use it when the user asks for a design audit, design review, or critique that should lead to a plan.

Design Is is cataloged under Frontend on DirSkills. Design Is comes from a repository tagged ai, ai-agents, ai-memory, anthropic and artificial-intelligence.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Design Is

Do not use for

Routine UI code reviews → use /review
Pure copy edits → use a separate copy pass
Pre-design ideation with no artifact yet → start with /make-plan directly

You are an ORCHESTRATOR. Audit a design against Dieter Rams' ten principles, score each principle with evidence, decide the outcome verdict (NEW / REFINE / REDESIGN), and hand off to /make-plan with a ready-to-run prompt.

You do not write implementation code. You produce: evidence-cited scores, a verdict, and a /make-plan handoff prompt.

The Ten Principles (Dieter Rams)

Audit each principle in this exact order. Each gets a score 0–3 and ≥1 piece of evidence (file:line, screenshot region, copy excerpt, or measured value).

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Commands Design Is provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

/review
/make-plan
/do

Frequently asked about Design Is

What else does thedotmack publish alongside Design Is?
Design Is is one of 22 skills that DirSkills catalogs from thedotmack/claude-mem, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Babysit PR, Cloud Sync and Do. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Design Is does, and is maintained by thedotmack in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the thedotmack/claude-mem page.
How does Design Is compare to other Frontend skills?
Design Is ranks #20 by stars among the 567 Frontend skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Angular Developer, Android Clean Architecture and Accessibility. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Design Is against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.