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visual-design-principles

Research-backed visual design principles for websites, presentations, documents, and any visual medium — grounded in VisAWI, Gestalt psychology, and empirical aesthetics research

37 on GitHubby Dr. Oliver Borchersv1.0.1MITupdated 18 days ago
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Plugin visual-design-principles from marketplace fractional-cto in oborchers/fractional-cto. Commands read from the repo's manifest — 18 days ago.

This plugin runs code on your machine — its hooks fire automatically on events like tool use. The exact commands are listed below; read them before installing.

What it installs

Skills (12)

  • accessibility-inclusive-design

    This skill should be used when the user is implementing accessible design, checking color contrast ratios, adding keyboard navigation, supporting screen readers, handling color blindness, implementing ARIA attributes, designing focus indicators, meeting WCAG 2.2 compliance, or building inclusive int

  • color-theory-application

    This skill should be used when the user is selecting colors, building color palettes, defining color systems, implementing dark mode, choosing brand colors, creating shade scales, applying the 60-30-10 rule, selecting data visualization colors, or checking color contrast. Covers HSL color model, har

  • consistency-design-systems

    This skill should be used when the user is building a design system, defining design tokens, creating component libraries, implementing CSS custom properties, ensuring visual consistency across pages, choosing between design systems (Material, Ant, Carbon), or auditing a codebase for design consiste

  • craftsmanship-polish

    This skill should be used when the user is polishing UI details, optimizing images, implementing shadows or elevation systems, ensuring pixel-perfect alignment, defining border-radius systems, adding micro-interactions or transitions, handling loading/empty/error states, or reducing Cumulative Layou

  • design-evaluation-scoring

    This skill should be used when the user asks to evaluate, score, or audit a visual design, wants to compare designs quantitatively, needs an anti-pattern checklist, or wants to understand the 8-dimension design quality framework. Covers the VisAWI-aligned 8-dimension scoring methodology (1-5 per dim

  • layout-spatial-structure

    This skill should be used when the user is building or reviewing page layouts, grid systems, column structures, card grids, sidebar layouts, CSS Grid or Flexbox decisions, element alignment, spatial composition, or responsive grid strategies. Covers the 12-column grid, 8-point spacing system, Gestal

  • responsive-design

    This skill should be used when the user is implementing responsive layouts, choosing breakpoints, building mobile-first designs, using CSS container queries, implementing responsive images (srcset, picture), sizing touch targets, designing responsive navigation, or adapting tables for mobile. Covers

  • typography

    This skill should be used when the user is selecting typefaces, defining font sizes, creating typographic scales, pairing fonts, setting line height or line length, building heading hierarchies, configuring web fonts, or implementing responsive typography. Covers modular type scales (Major Third, Pe

  • using-visual-design-principles

    This skill should be used when the user asks 'which visual design skill should I use', 'show me all design principles', 'help me evaluate a design', or at the start of any visual design conversation. Provides the index of all eleven principle skills and ensures the right ones are invoked before any

  • visual-hierarchy

    This skill should be used when the user is establishing visual importance, designing headings, creating focal points, designing CTAs or buttons, arranging label-data relationships, implementing scanning patterns (F-pattern, Z-pattern), or ensuring one dominant element per screen. Covers the three le

  • visual-interest-expression

    This skill should be used when the user is defining brand personality in design, choosing between illustration and photography, adding motion or animation, creating visual motifs, ensuring layout variety, customizing CSS framework defaults, or calibrating the level of creative expression for a given

  • whitespace-density

    This skill should be used when the user is adjusting spacing, padding, margins, content density, section gaps, vertical rhythm, or separation between elements. Also applies when reviewing whether a design feels cramped or too sparse, choosing between borders and whitespace for separation, or definin

Slash commands (1)

  • /visual-design-principles:design-review

    Review code, screenshots, or visual artifacts against visual design principles — identifies violations and suggests research-backed improvements

Subagents (1)

  • visual-design-reviewer

    Use this agent for comprehensive visual design audits of websites, components, presentations, documents, or any visual artifact. Examples: <example>Context: User has built a landing page and wants a design review. user: "Review my landing page design against visual design best practices" assistant:

Hooks (1)

  • SessionStart

    ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/hooks/session-start.sh

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