Jobs to Be Done

by Owl-Listener

Jobs to Be Done is a Frontend skill for Claude Code, published by Owl-Listener in designer-skills.

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Install Jobs to Be Done

Copy Jobs to Be Done 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/Owl-Listener/designer-skills/tree/main/design-research/skills/jobs-to-be-done ~/.claude/skills/jobs-to-be-done

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/Owl-Listener/designer-skills.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: design-research/skills/jobs-to-be-done/SKILL.md in Owl-Listener/designer-skills
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/jobs-to-be-done
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Frontend — 567 skills

What Jobs to Be Done does

Jobs to Be Done maps functional, emotional, and social jobs with outcome expectations to understand user motivations. Use it to reframe decisions around motivation rather than features.

Jobs to Be Done is cataloged under Frontend on DirSkills. Jobs to Be Done comes from a repository tagged agentic, agentic-ai, ai, ai-tools and claude-code.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

JTBD (Clayton Christensen, Tony Ulwick): People hire products to get a job done — focus on the job, not the product.
Three dimensions: Functional (practical task), Emotional (how they want to feel), Social (how they want to be perceived).
Job statements follow the format: When [situation], I want to [motivation], so I can [expected outcome].

Instructions

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

Frequently asked about Jobs to Be Done

What else does Owl-Listener publish alongside Jobs to Be Done?
Jobs to Be Done is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from Owl-Listener/designer-skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Accessibility Audit, Affinity Diagram and Card Sort Analysis. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Jobs to Be Done does, and is maintained by Owl-Listener in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the Owl-Listener/designer-skills page.
How does Jobs to Be Done compare to other Frontend skills?
Jobs to Be Done ranks #246 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 Jobs to Be Done against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.