Web Designer Plugin

Stop generating generic AI frontends. Start designing award-winning websites.

This plugin transforms Claude from a code generator into a world-class web designer. It injects real design thinking – typography systems, color theory, animation vocabulary, layout patterns, and 3D techniques – extracted from 38 of the best-designed websites of 2025-2026.

“Would this get featured on Awwwards?” – The standard this plugin holds you to.

See It In Action

FUEGO – Bold E-commerce

Triple-stacked giant typography, torn paper SVG dividers, 3D physical buttons, spinning starburst, dual marquee tickers.

PL-5000 – Retro Device Portfolio

CRT screen grain, physical 3D buttons that depress, rotating knob, blinking LEDs, screen content swap with glitch transition.

WRECK – Brutalist Agency

Cursor trail with mix-blend-mode inversion, text scramble cipher effect, horizontal drag scroll, live clock, acid green hover states.

Retro Terminal – KATREDUX

CRT phosphor glow, scanline overlay, terminal typing animation, ASCII art, green-on-black hacker aesthetic.

Paper Collage – Jules Atelier

Hand-crafted paper texture, sticky notes, polaroid photos, torn edges, tape strips, organic handmade aesthetic.

The Problem

AI-generated frontends all look the same: blue-purple gradients, uniform card grids, border-radius: 12px on everything, Inter font, centered layouts, generic shadows. This is the “AI Look” and users can spot it instantly.

The Solution

48 battle-tested design patterns extracted from real award-winning sites, organized into a skill that activates on demand and guides Claude to produce distinctive, creative, production-quality frontend code.

What’s Inside

Design Patterns Include

• 3D card tilt following cursor (SVZ Design)
• Outlined/stroked typography (VOUS Church, Chiara Luzzana)
• Clip-path image reveals (SVZ Design)
• Physical 3D buttons with depth (Pierre-Louis Labonne)
• Two-tone split headings (Superlist)
• Torn paper dividers (De La Calle)
• Giant compressed hero text (DONUTS)
• Frosted glass navigation (Michael Kors, Ready.so)
• Sticky-scroll cinematic scenes (The Goonies)
• Staggered menu cascades (207ouest)
• Infinite logo tickers with fade masks (Superlist)
• Wide-gamut P3 accent colors (Superlist)
• Perspective app screenshots (Daylight Computer)
• Ambient radial glow effects (Superlist)
• And 34 more…

Palette Archetypes

1. Monochrome + Single Accent – SVZ, April Ford, Chiara Luzzana
2. Warm Neutrals – VOUS Church, Hardgraft, Everlane
3. Bold Brand – De La Calle, Magic Spoon, Couplet Coffee
4. Dark Luxury – SVZ, Chiara Luzzana, The Goonies
5. Sophisticated Minimal – Ready.so, Slite, Calm

Installation

Claude Code

# Add the marketplace
/plugin marketplace add MickeyAlton33/web-designer-plugin

# Install the plugin
/plugin install web-designer

Or install directly:

/install-plugin https://github.com/MickeyAlton33/web-designer-plugin

Cursor

The plugin is automatically detected via .cursor-plugin/plugin.json. Clone or add as a submodule in your project.

GitHub Copilot

Detected via .github/plugin/plugin.json.

Verify Installation

After installing, you should see web-designer in your available skills:

/skills

Usage

This plugin activates on demand – it does not auto-trigger on every frontend task. Invoke it when you want designer-quality output:

Use the web-designer skill to build a landing page for a meditation app

/web-designer -- Create a portfolio site for a photographer

Use web-designer to redesign this component with award-winning quality

The Decision Framework

When activated, the skill guides Claude through:

1. MOOD – What emotional register? (calm/energetic/luxurious/playful/authoritative)
2. PALETTE – Derived from mood, committed to constraint
3. TYPE – Font strategy that carries the mood
4. LAYOUT – Rhythm that serves the content
5. MOTION – What needs to move and why
6. SIGNATURE – The ONE thing that makes this design memorable

Anti-Pattern Checklist

Before finalizing, the skill verifies the output doesn’t fall into these traps:

• No blue-purple gradient backgrounds
• No uniform card grids with identical spacing
• No centered-everything heroes
• No font-family: Inter on everything
• No generic opacity: 0.8 hover effects
• No box-shadow: 0 4px 6px on every card
• No identical section treatments throughout
• And 3 more…

Examples

The examples/ directory contains 10 concept sites spanning diverse design archetypes. Download any HTML file and open it in a browser – they’re fully self-contained.

Research Sources

This plugin’s patterns were extracted from deep analysis of these award-winning websites:

Webflow Blog “Best Websites”: SVZ Design, Wayside Studio, VOUS Church, Ready.so, April Ford, Chiara Luzzana, Pierre-Louis Labonne, Superlist, Michael Kors Collection, Slite, The Goonies, DONUTS

Shopify Blog “Beautiful E-commerce”: De La Calle, Magic Spoon, Couplet Coffee, Hardgraft, Haus, Koffiracha, 207ouest, Daylight Computer, Collider, and more

Each site was analyzed for: color palette, typography approach, layout/grid system, animation patterns, visual hierarchy techniques, and specific replicable CSS techniques.

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md. The best contributions are patterns extracted from real award-winning websites with production-ready code.

License

MIT