07 — Who's behind it · New York
A VaporAviator Labs project.
Design Skills Hub is built by VaporAviator Labs, a New York design studio working at the seam of design and AI — we build the tools we wish existed for designers in the agent age.
About · Design Skills Hub
The open registry of design skills for AI agents — authored by humans, not scraped from the web.
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01 — Why this exists
AI made design free to generate — interfaces, brands, decks, posts are a prompt away. But when everyone draws from the same models, output converges. The web fills with competent, forgettable "AI slop."
So the scarce thing flips: not making a design, but having a point of view worth keeping. And here's the catch — even a brilliant agent can't supply that. It has to be told whose design: "make it Nike, not generic."
one of these has a point of view.
Design isn't a capability an agent has. It's a specification you give it.
02 — What makes us different
There are two ways to hand an AI a design. Only one of them carries a point of view.
A designer sat down and encoded the whole thing — color, type, spacing, motion, voice, and the boundaries of what not to do.
The why is built in. Every choice carries its reason, and the alternatives it turned down.
Coherent. Meant to be applied, not guessed at.
A tool points at any website and infers tokens from the page's markup.
You get the surface — a few colors, a few fonts. Not the intent, not the edges, not the why.
A snapshot of how something looks — prone to the very slop it set out to fix.
A scraper copies what a site already is. A designer encodes what it may become.
03 — Aesthetic & Engineering skills
Skills span UI/UX, design systems, websites & landing, mobile, branding, logos, decks, and marketing & social — and skills that review a design (critique, UX walkthrough, accessibility audit), not only generate one.
Aesthetic
The look — color, type, spacing, motion, brand, layout. The taste a designer chose to encode.
Engineering
The rules — component architecture, standards, accessibility, performance. The how a design holds up.
Every skill installs into any agent that reads a skill file.
04 — How the samples are made
The sample on each card isn't art we directed. We install the skill, hand the agent one shared brief — a fictional design studio — and let the skill make every call: type, color, spacing, motion, layout. Same words for every skill; only the skill changes. So the wall is a like-for-like read of judgment, not our styling. Cards marked “Sample” are exactly that; a maker can upload their own banner instead — those wear “By author.”
The recipe — the same one you'd run
npx skills add <repo>Open any skill and the Preview tab shows the live, clickable version.
# the prompt, made public
Apply the '{skill}' design skill. Follow every rule it defines — color, type, spacing, motion, a brand system, a deck or layout, or a review pass.
# one content brief, identical for every skill
VaporAviator Lab — a human-centered design laboratory for the near future. "Design for the next departure."
Programs · Interface Physiology · Mission Identity · Adaptive Design Systems
Work · HALON · Meridian · SIGNAL-9 · 400+ prototypes · Est. NYC
Content only — the skill supplies all the style.
05 — How it works
Install
Browse the registry, copy a skill's install command (or run npx design-skills-hub), and your agent — Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Gemini — reads it and ships on-brand instead of generic.
Publish
Bring a repo with a SKILL.md, or convert a Figma file at /convert. It's listed, attributed to you, and any agent can install it.
06 — Why now
Layer 01
Industry workflows, big-co built. Industrializing fast.
Layer 02
Generic engineer skills, MIT-licensed abundance. Industrializing fast.
Layer 03
A designer's system as a portable skill — for your brand, on every agent you use. No incumbent yet.
Portable design is the layer no one has industrialized. That's the one we're building — vendor-neutral, user-owned, portable.
07 — Who's behind it · New York
Design Skills Hub is built by VaporAviator Labs, a New York design studio working at the seam of design and AI — we build the tools we wish existed for designers in the agent age.
Frequently asked
The open registry of portable design skills for AI agents. Designers encode their design — UI/UX, design systems, branding, logos, decks, marketing, mobile, even design review — as a portable SKILL.md bundle any agent can install and run.
A skill file (SKILL.md, plus DESIGN.md / .cursorrules / CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md adapters) that encodes how good design gets made or judged — a UI/UX system, a website, branding, a logo, a deck, a marketing piece, or a design-review pass — so any agent applies it the same way across Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and more.
Vertical packs cover industry workflows. Pattern libraries catalog the industry-average shipped screen. Design Skills Hub covers portable design judgment — which can't be bundled into a vertical or averaged from screenshots, because it belongs to the designer, not the industry.
Scrapers read an existing site and hand the agent its colors and fonts — the average of what already exists, with no intent. Every skill here is authored: a human encodes the rules, the refusals, the voice, and the why. A scraper copies what a site already is; a designer encodes what it may become.
Any agent that reads a skill file: Claude Code, Cursor, Codex (AGENTS.md), Gemini, ChatGPT, Windsurf, v0, GitHub Copilot, and OpenClaw — or install from your terminal with npx design-skills-hub.
Human designers and design engineers. Free to browse, install, and publish your own (log in with GitHub and it's attributed to you).
Built by VaporAviator Labs, New York · designskills.xyz