How to turn Claude into your full-time designer

🎨 How to turn Claude into your full-time designer

These are the 6 free skills that turn Claude into a much stronger design and content production assistant.

Real landing pages. Real PowerPoint decks. Real PDF lead magnets. Real ad-style screenshots. Real reusable workflows.

Quick context first, then the install steps.

🤖 What’s a skill?

A skill is a reusable instruction kit that Claude follows on autopilot.

You install it once, and Claude knows what to do every time you trigger it.

Think of it like saving a really good prompt plus any reference files Claude needs, all bundled into one folder.

So instead of explaining the same task again and again, you can tell Claude what you want, and the skill gives it the right process to follow.

💻 Where do skills work?

Skills work across the 3 main Claude interfaces. The install method changes slightly depending on which one you use.

Claude.ai (web) is the easiest option. Go to claude.ai, log in, click your profile, then Settings → Capabilities → Skills. Most official Anthropic skills are toggle-on from here. Works on Pro and Max plans.

Claude Desktop (the Mac or Windows app) works the same way as web. Go to Settings → Capabilities → Skills, then toggle on the skills you want.

Claude Code (the terminal version) is where you install community skills, meaning anything not built directly by Anthropic.

The terminal is the black-screen typing window on your computer:

• Mac: search Terminal
• Windows: search Command Prompt

Claude Code is a free download from claude.com/code.

If you’re on the Free Claude plan, you’ll need Claude Code for any skill, since the toggle-on web option is a paid feature.

🛠️ How to install Claude Code in 2 minutes

Skip this if you only want the official Anthropic skills. Those work in claude.ai with no terminal setup.

1. Go to claude.com/code and click Download
2. Open the installer and follow the prompts
3. Open your terminal
   • Mac: search Terminal
   • Windows: search Command Prompt
4. Type claude and press Enter
5. Follow the login prompt
6. Done

You’re ready to install the skills below.

📋 The 6 skills and how to install each

1. UI-UX Pro Max

This gives Claude design-thinking ability before it generates a layout.

It comes with 161 design rules, 67 UI styles, 161 color palettes, and 57 font pairings.

Best for:

• landing pages
• sales pages
• SaaS pages
• product pages
• brand concepts
• visual systems

Install:

• Open Claude Code by typing claude in your terminal
• Type: /plugin marketplace add nextlevelbuilder/ui-ux-pro-max-skill
• Press Enter

To use it, say something like:

“Build me a landing page for my AI workflow offer using UI-UX Pro Max.”

Or:

“Use UI-UX Pro Max to create a landing page design system for a premium B2B outbound agency.”

2. App Store Design

This generates production-ready App Store and Play Store screenshots.

The important part: it designs each slide like an advertisement, not a boring UI showcase.

Built by Parth Jadhav.

Best for:

• mobile app screenshots
• SaaS app previews
• launch graphics
• app store assets
• product mockups
• ad-style feature slides

Install:

• Open Claude Code
• Type: npx skills add ParthJadhav/app-store-screenshots
• Press Enter

Use it when you want Claude to turn an app idea or product flow into clean store-ready screenshots.

3. PPTX (PowerPoint)

This generates real PowerPoint decks.

Not fake “slides” inside a chat.

Actual .pptx files you can open and edit inside Keynote, PowerPoint, or Google Slides.

Official Anthropic skill.

Best for:

• sales decks
• lead magnet decks
• client onboarding decks
• course modules
• internal training docs
• strategy presentations
• investor-style explainers

Install on Claude.ai or Claude Desktop:

• Click your profile
• Go to Settings → Capabilities → Skills
• Toggle on the PowerPoint skill

Install on Claude Code:

• Type: /plugin marketplace add anthropics/skills
• Then type: /plugin install pptx

Use it when you want Claude to create a deck you can actually edit and present.

4. PDF

This generates real PDF documents.

Official Anthropic skill.

Best for:

• lead magnets
• swipe files
• prompt packs
• ICP worksheets
• checklists
• client deliverables
• onboarding docs
• paid resources

Install on Claude.ai or Claude Desktop:

• Go to Settings → Capabilities → Skills
• Toggle on the PDF skill

Install on Claude Code:

• Type: /plugin install pdf
• Use this after adding the anthropics/skills marketplace from the PPTX step

If you’re selling a small digital resource, a tripwire, or a useful lead magnet, this is one of the first skills worth testing.

5. GStack

Built by Garry Tan, President of Y Combinator.

GStack includes 23 slash-commands for thinking, planning, building, reviewing, shipping, and reflecting.

Most people should start with these two:

• /plan-design-review rates any design 0 to 10 and explains what a 10 looks like
• /design-shotgun generates 4 to 6 design variants and lets you pick

Best for:

• landing pages
• decks
• ad creatives
• visual reviews
• design planning
• improving weak layouts

Install:

• Open Claude Code
• Type: git clone https://github.com/garrytan/gstack.git ~/.claude/skills/gstack
• Then type: cd ~/.claude/skills/gstack && ./setup

This is the most developer-style install on the list.

If terminal commands feel annoying, skip this for now and come back later.

6. Skill Creator

This is the unlock.

Skill Creator builds custom Claude skills for any workflow you do more than once.

Official Anthropic skill.

Best for encoding:

• your brand voice
• your hook formula
• your ICP doc
• your offer framework
• your client onboarding process
• your editing checklist
• your outbound workflow
• your SOPs
• your content system

Once you can build your own skills, you stop searching for the perfect prompt every time.

You build once and reuse forever.

Install on Claude.ai or Claude Desktop:

• Go to Settings → Capabilities → Skills
• Toggle on Skill Creator

Install on Claude Code:

• Type: /plugin install skill-creator
• Use this after adding the anthropics/skills marketplace

🎯 How to actually use a skill

Once a skill is installed, just talk to Claude normally and mention what you want.

Claude will detect the relevant skill and use it.

Example prompts:

• “Use the PowerPoint skill to make me a 5-slide deck explaining my outbound offer.”
• “Use App Store Design to generate iPhone screenshots for a fictional habit tracker app.”
• “Use Skill Creator to turn this brand voice doc into a reusable skill for me.”
• “Use the PDF skill to turn this outline into a polished lead magnet.”
• “Use UI-UX Pro Max to create a design system for a premium AI automation agency.”

You don’t need to memorize exact skill names.

Just explain what you want clearly.

💡 My honest take

Start with Skill Creator and PDF. Everything else can wait.

Skill Creator is the real unlock because it lets you encode your own repeatable workflows.

PDF is immediately useful because you can turn outlines into lead magnets, swipe files, worksheets, checklists, and client assets without jumping between five different tools.

UI-UX Pro Max and GStack are powerful, but they’re more advanced.

Don’t try to install everything on day one.

Start with the skill that solves the problem you actually have this week.

• If you need lead magnets, start with PDF.
• If you repeat the same prompts every day, start with Skill Creator.
• If you create decks often, start with PPTX.
• If you’re building landing pages or design assets, test UI-UX Pro Max and GStack.