A portable Claude skill that turns the model into a senior designer — grounded in real context, committed to a visual system, refusing to make AI-slop.
Claude Design is a SKILL.md plus a handful of on-demand references. Claude loads it when your request sounds like design — a deck, a landing page, a prototype, a poster, a motion explainer.
Once loaded, the skill rewires Claude's instincts. Fact verification before assumption. Real brand assets before colours and fonts. Three directions before committing. Not a bigger model — a different set of defaults.
When a product is named, WebSearch comes before design. 10 seconds of search beats 1–2 hours of rework. Non-negotiable.
Ask → search → download → verify → freeze. Logos, product shots, UI screenshots are first-class. Colours and fonts are auxiliary.
When the brief is vague, propose three directions from ten philosophies across five schools. Build a preview. Wait for the user.