# design-like-im-5

A skill for designing and reviewing interfaces: keeps the user-facing core simple and checks states, inputs and screen sizes.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 304 installs · ★ 2
- Author: Kiren Srinivasan
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/srinitude/skills/tree/HEAD/skills/design-like-im-5/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-21
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/design-like-im-5

## What it does

The skill covers creating, reviewing or revising a digital product, a full flow, a design system or a screen set. It asks that the interface not hide truth, cost, risk, state or control from the user. Reviews change no product file; revisions touch only approved files.

Inside there is an ordered workflow in `assets/workflow.json` and an owner map in `assets/execution-ownership.json`, and the step order stays fixed. Mise tasks check structure: `mise run task-graph`, `mise run ownership`, `mise run context-routing`, `mise run section-support`. They do not make design judgments.

Checks pass separately: truth, access, task, perception, familiarity, standards, craft and resilience. Inherited work gets marked `STALE`, and observation comes before any decision. Visual proof belongs to the same executor with vision access, and without direct sight of current pixels the item is `BLOCKED`. A Figma audit also needs `computer-use` plus a lifecycle receipt, or the item is `BLOCKED` too. Mise is the thing to check before installing: without it the tasks will not run.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add srinitude/skills --skill design-like-im-5 -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/design-like-im-5/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/design-like-im-5/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add srinitude/skills --skill design-like-im-5 -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/design-like-im-5/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add srinitude/skills --skill design-like-im-5 -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/design-like-im-5/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install srinitude/skills design-like-im-5
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/design-like-im-5/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add srinitude/skills --skill design-like-im-5 -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/srinitude/skills --path skills/design-like-im-5
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/design-like-im-5/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add srinitude/skills --skill design-like-im-5 -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/srinitude/skills/tree/HEAD/skills/design-like-im-5/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- design a flow that shows state and cost to the user
- review a design system without missing broken states
- check mobile and tablet layers in portrait and landscape
- separate truth and access from perception and craft in reviews
- keep step order and owners fixed across design work

## Example prompts
- run design-like-im-5 over this checkout flow
- review the design system and show me where states break
- check the screen set on mobile and tablet, rotation included

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: design-like-im-5
description: 'Use when creating, reviewing, or revising a digital product, full flow, design system, or screen set. It keeps the user-facing core simple across parts, states, access needs, inputs, and screen sizes. Use it for product design, UX, UI, interaction, motion, or design review work.'
license: MIT
metadata:
  author: Kiren Srinivasan
  version: '0.2.1'
  scope: 'user'
---

# Design like I am five

Make a usable product without hiding truth, cost, risk, state, or control. Route full support through [references/section-support.md](references/section-support.md) and `mise run section-support`.

## One contract

- Minimize elapsed time to a verified owning-artifact change. Preserve exploratory and experimental breadth, correctness, every gate, and same-executor vision.
- [assets/speed-policy.json](assets/speed-policy.json), [assets/speed-policy.schema.json](assets/speed-policy.schema.json), and [evals/speed-budgets.json](evals/speed-budgets.json) own safe scheduling and bounds through `mise run complete`.
- [assets/workflow.json](assets/workflow.json) is the only step order. [assets/execution-ownership.json](assets/execution-ownership.json) is the only owner map. Check both through `mise run task-graph` and `mise run ownership`. Do not skip, merge, replace, or reorder a required step.
- [assets/context-routing.json](assets/context-routing.json), [assets/context-routing.schema.json](assets/context-routing.schema.json), and [assets/context-bundle.schema.json](assets/context-bundle.schema.json) own routes and packet shape through `mise run context-routing`. [assets/section-support.json](assets/section-support.json) and [assets/section-support.schema.json](assets/section-support.schema.json) own heading support through `mise run section-support`. Read [references/context-routing.md](references/context-routing.md) and [references/section-support.md](references/section-support.md) through those tasks. Recheck after route changes.
- The model may add, split, mix, reverse, or reject options inside rights and vetoes. The model performs every eye, brain, and touch review. The model checks all bad design, bad output, and bad practice rules. It reads [references/review.md](references/review.md) through `mise run human-sweep` and keeps canvases clean. Scripts cannot grant design or cleanliness `PASS`.
- Truth, access, task, perception, familiarity, standards, uniqueness, craft, and resilience pass separately. Start from zero trust. Mark inherited work `STALE`, observe first, retain passes, and reject needless redesign. Bind claims to evidence; never average away failure.
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