A working repository for designers who use Claude as a collaborator. Skills, principles, project templates, and a career vault.
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Claude for Designers
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A working repository for designers who use Claude as a collaborator. Skills, principles, project templates, and a career vault. Not a pile of prompts to paste, a system to work inside.
New here? Jump to Install to get the nine skills running in two minutes, or read Why this exists first.
Most designers use Claude like a vending machine: paste a request, take whatever drops out. This repo is the opposite. You download it, brief Claude once through a working contract, and then run a nine-step design process where every step builds on the last. The output stops being generic the moment Claude knows your project, your market, and your constraints.
Built for the Claude for UI/UX Designers course on Ostad, with Bangladesh-market design as the worked example. You do not need the course to use the repo.
Claude with no context produces work any agency in any city could ship with the same prompt. That is the commodity end of design, and it is the part AI is eating fastest.
The designers who stay valuable are the ones who bring what Claude structurally cannot: a real brief, a real user, a real market, and the judgment to push back. This repo is the scaffolding for that. It makes the context permanent so you stop re-briefing Claude every conversation, and it keeps the decisions yours.
The nine-step process
Run them in order on any project. Skip a step and the next one does that step's work badly.
claude-for-designers/
├── CLAUDE.md what Claude reads when you open the project
├── principles/ the knowledge layer: how you work
│ ├── claude-contract.md your working contract with Claude
│ ├── design-taste.md taste principles for designers using AI
│ ├── anti-ai-slop.md patterns to refuse to ship
│ └── bd-defaults.md market context block (swap for your market)
├── skills/ the capability layer: the nine commands
├── projects/ where work happens, one folder per project
│ └── edubridge/ the worked example, brief through built screen
└── career-vault/ positioning, portfolio stories, interview prepprinciples/ is the part most people skip and the part that makes the difference. It is the working contract, the taste rules, and the anti-slop list. Claude reads it before it does anything, so its first draft already sounds like your work instead of everyone's.
Pick the Claude interface you use. The files are the same everywhere; only the install path changes. However you got the repo: the green Code button on GitHub gives you a ZIP (download and unzip it, no Git needed), or clone it if you know Git. The contents are identical. The unzipped folder may be named `claude-for-designers-main`; that is fine.
You only need this from Class 6. The nine skills live in skills/. To turn them into slash commands, open a terminal in your unzipped (or cloned) repo folder and run:
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
for f in grill-me design-brief information-architecture design-tokens brief-to-tasks frontend-design design-review heuristic-evaluation persona-acid-test; do
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/$f
cp skills/$f.md ~/.claude/skills/$f/SKILL.md
doneRestart Claude Code, type /, and the nine commands appear. Prefer Git over the ZIP? Run git clone https://github.com/mshadmanrahman/claude-for-designers.git first, then the loop. Not comfortable in a terminal? You do not need it; the Chat path below works without one.
Open the Cowork tab, go to Settings, Plugins, Upload plugin, and point it at this repo's skills/ folder. The nine skills become slash commands.
Settings, Projects, New Project. For each skill, paste the contents of skills/{name}.md into the project's custom instructions and save. Conversations inside that project follow the skill.
cp -r projects/edubridge projects/your-project
cd projects/your-projectReplace the brief, run /grill-me, and work down the nine steps. The folder is the process, not just the output of it.
claudecodeguide.dev/for-designers has bite-sized guides for specific design workflows: brief decoding, critique gathering, research synthesis, handoff. Use it as your reference library once the skills are installed.
Ostad: Claude for UI/UX Designers is the structured eight-class course that walks through this entire workspace with EduBridge Bangladesh as the running example.
MIT. Use these in your work, change them, share them. Attribution appreciated, not required.
Shadman Rahman. Product manager, former designer. These skills came out of real design work across Bangladesh and EU clients, then got road-tested with junior designers in the Ostad course.
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