# interface-kit

A skill that gives the agent a working order for interface code: accessibility first, then type, grid, color, motion. Useful when you build a component or landing page and want it to look deliberate.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 2200 installs · ★ 168
- Author: JuliusBrussee
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/JuliusBrussee/skills/tree/HEAD/skills/interface-kit/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-08-07
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/interface-kit

## What it does

The skill sorts interface work into priorities. Accessibility sits on top: 4.5:1 contrast, keyboard navigation, ARIA, visible focus rings. Below come performance, typography, layout and spacing, color, motion, polish. The order is strict — you do not skip a top item to chase a bottom one.

Inside are sections on aesthetic direction, typography, spatial design, color systems and component craft, plus reference files under `references/` for deeper reading. If a `DESIGN.md` sits at the project root, its tokens and specs override the skill's defaults. Without one, the skill tells you to pick a single direction and commit instead of hedging between styles.

There is a ban list for projects with no design system: Inter, Roboto, Arial and Space Grotesk as display fonts, purple-to-blue gradients on white, the centered hero with a stock illustration. Worth checking whether your page looks like everyone else's.

The skill complements `design-system`, which covers writing the `DESIGN.md` spec; this one covers how to implement it.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add JuliusBrussee/skills --skill interface-kit -a claude-code
```

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

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add JuliusBrussee/skills --skill interface-kit -a codex
```

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

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add JuliusBrussee/skills --skill interface-kit -a cursor
```

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install JuliusBrussee/skills interface-kit
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/interface-kit/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add JuliusBrussee/skills --skill interface-kit -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/JuliusBrussee/skills --path skills/interface-kit
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add JuliusBrussee/skills --skill interface-kit -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/JuliusBrussee/skills/tree/HEAD/skills/interface-kit/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- build a component with keyboard-accessible navigation
- pick one visual direction instead of mixing styles
- set up type smoothing, wrapping and tabular figures
- align spacing to a grid and match border radii
- choose duration and easing for an animation

## Example prompts
- build a product card, accessibility and focus states required
- make a landing page in a brutally minimal style, no stock images
- polish this component: spacing, shadows, entrance animation

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: interface-kit
description: |
  Authoritative guide for implementing stunning, accessible, performant UI. Synthesizes
  design engineering philosophy, accessibility standards, animation principles, spatial design,
  typography, color systems, and component craft into a single actionable reference.
  Complements the design-system skill (which covers DESIGN.md spec writing) by covering
  the HOW of implementation.
  Trigger phrases: "build UI", "create component", "landing page", "make it look good",
  "frontend", "design", "polish UI", "implement design", "make it beautiful",
  "UI implementation", "component styling", "animation", "accessibility"
---

# Interface Kit: Implementation Guide for Exceptional Interfaces

> If a DESIGN.md exists at the project root, its tokens and specifications override all defaults in this skill. This skill provides sensible defaults for when no design system exists, and implementation guidance that applies regardless.

> For deep dives on any section, see the reference files in this skill's `references/` directory.

---

## 1. Core Philosophy

Taste is trained, not innate. Study why great interfaces feel right. Deconstruct apps you admire — the spacing, the timing, the weight of a shadow. The gap between "fine" and "exceptional" is built from hundreds of micro-decisions that users feel but never consciously notice.

**Unseen details compound.** A single rounded corner, a single eased transition, a single well-chosen shadow — none of these matter alone. Together they become "a thousand barely audible voices singing in tune." The cumulative effect is what separates craft from output.

**Beauty is leverage.** Polish is not vanity. Good defaults, considered typography, and intentional motion are real differentiators. Users trust interfaces that feel cared for. Investors notice. Competitors can't easily replicate taste.

**Intentionality over intensity.** Both bold maximalism and refined minimalism work — what fails is the absence of a clear point of view. Every visual decision should trace back to a deliberate conceptual direction. If you can't articulate WHY a choice was made, reconsider it.

**Choose a direction and execute with precision.** Don't hedge between styles. A brutalist page committed fully will always outperform a page that's "a little bit of everything." Commit, then refine.

**NEVER produce generic "AI slop" aesthetics.** No gratuitous gradients on white backgrounds. No cookie-cutter hero sections with stock illustrations. No safe, forgettable layouts that could belong to any product. Every interface should have a point of view that makes it recognizable.

---

## 2. The Priority Stack
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