What is the Design of Everyday Things Claude Code skill?

It is a specialized capability that allows Claude to apply human-centered design principles—like affordances and signifiers—to your UI/UX and product development workflows.

How does this skill improve user interfaces?

It helps designers create natural mappings and clear conceptual models, ensuring users intuitively understand how to interact with a system without needing a manual.

Can this skill be used for physical product design?

Yes, while useful for digital UIs, these principles are based on environmental psychology and are equally applicable to industrial and physical product design.

What are the core design principles covered by this skill?

The skill focuses on seven key steps: affordances, signifiers, mappings, feedback, conceptual models, constraints, and the three levels of processing (visceral, behavioral, and reflective).

Design of Everyday Things Principles

Name: Design of Everyday Things Principles
Author: lev-os

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设计工具

Applies foundational human-centered design principles to create intuitive, discoverable, and user-friendly product interactions.

This skill integrates the psychological frameworks from Don Norman's 'The Design of Everyday Things' into the development process, enabling Claude to guide designers and developers through the creation of intuitive interfaces. It focuses on optimizing affordances, signifiers, mappings, feedback loops, and conceptual models to bridge the gap between user intent and system response. By applying these principles, teams can reduce user error, improve discoverability, and ensure that digital or physical products align with natural human mental models rather than forcing users to adapt to complex system logic.

主要功能

01Guidance on creating immediate, informative, and calibrated feedback loops

02Implementation of core UX principles: affordances, signifiers, and mappings

03Strategic application of constraints to prevent user errors and friction

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05Optimization for visceral, behavioral, and reflective design levels

06Diagnostic tools for identifying and correcting usability anti-patterns

使用场景

01Training development teams on fundamental human-centered design frameworks

02Evaluating and auditing existing UI/UX for usability improvements

03Designing complex control panels or dashboards with intuitive navigation

What are Skills?·How to Install

Install with 🐟 Skill.Fish

npx skillfish add lev-os/agents design-of-everyday-things

For use in Claude.ai and ChatGPT

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