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Ui Ux Polish

  • 2 installs
  • 404 repo stars
  • Updated August 5, 2026
  • aiskillstore/marketplace

ui-ux-polish is a Claude skill that provides an iterative prompt and methodology for polishing a working web app's UI/UX across desktop and mobile.

About

ui-ux-polish is an iterative UI/UX polishing workflow for web applications that already work and look decent. It supplies an exact prompt run repeatedly, each pass making small compounding visual improvements to spacing, typography, states, and interactions, with desktop and mobile optimized separately. Developers use it to elevate a working app from decent to highly refined.

  • Iterative UI/UX polishing prompt and methodology for web apps
  • Optimizes desktop and mobile separately across many passes
  • Includes the exact polish prompt to run repeatedly

Ui Ux Polish by the numbers

  • 2 all-time installs (skills.sh)
  • +1 installs in the week ending Jun 23, 2026 (Skillselion tracking)
  • Ranked #1,564 of 1,880 Design & UI/UX skills by installs in the Skillselion catalog
  • Data as of Aug 5, 2026 (Skillselion catalog sync)
At a glance

ui-ux-polish capabilities & compatibility

Capabilities
ui design · frontend · design review
Use cases
ui design · frontend · web design
From the docs

What ui-ux-polish says it does

Iterative UI/UX polishing workflow for web applications. The exact prompt and methodology for achieving Stripe-level visual polish through multiple passes.
SKILL.md
These really add up after 10 iterations!
SKILL.md
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Last updatedAugust 5, 2026
Repositoryaiskillstore/marketplace

What it does

Iteratively polish a working web app's UI/UX across desktop and mobile until it is highly refined.

Who is it for?

Developers with a working, decent-looking app who want to elevate it to a highly polished finish.

Skip if: Broken or buggy apps, or apps with fundamentally wrong styling that need a complete overhaul.

When should I use this skill?

When an app already works and looks decent and you want to iteratively improve its look and feel.

What you get

Repeated polish passes compound small improvements in spacing, typography, states, and responsiveness.

  • Incrementally polished UI across desktop and mobile

By the numbers

  • 10+ recommended iterations

Files

SKILL.mdMarkdownGitHub ↗

UI/UX Polish — Iterative Enhancement Workflow

When to Use: This is for when your site/app already works and looks decent and you want to improve it. There's a different approach when it looks bad and needs a complete overhaul.

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Key Insight: Something about asking for agreement from the model ("don't you agree?") somehow motivates it to polish things up better. Also, instructing it to separately think through desktop vs mobile leads to much better outcomes.

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The Workflow

Overview

1. App already works and looks decent 2. Run the polish prompt 3. Agent makes incremental improvements 4. Repeat many times (10+ iterations) 5. Each pass adds small improvements that compound

Why Multiple Passes Work

  • Each time, it tries to make some incremental improvement, even if it's minor
  • These really add up after 10 iterations!
  • Multiple agents can work on this simultaneously
  • Cumulative effect is dramatic

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THE EXACT PROMPT — UI/UX Polish

This prompt is used so frequently it's worth putting on a Stream Deck button:

I still think there are strong opportunities to enhance the UI/UX look and feel and to make everything work better and be more intuitive, user-friendly, visually appealing, polished, slick, and world class in terms of following UI/UX best practices like those used by Stripe, don't you agree? And I want you to carefully consider desktop UI/UX and mobile UI/UX separately while doing this and hyper-optimize for both separately to play to the specifics of each modality. I'm looking for true world-class visual appeal, polish, slickness, etc. that makes people gasp at how stunning and perfect it is in every way.  Use ultrathink.

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Why This Prompt Works

1. Asks for Agreement

The phrase "don't you agree?" engages the model's reasoning about whether improvements are possible, rather than just executing instructions.

2. Separates Desktop and Mobile

"carefully consider desktop UI/UX and mobile UI/UX separately...
hyper-optimize for both separately to play to the specifics of each modality"

This prevents the model from making compromises that work "okay" on both but great on neither.

3. Sets High Standards

References:

  • "world class"
  • "best practices like those used by Stripe"
  • "makes people gasp at how stunning and perfect it is"

These anchors push the model toward higher quality than generic "make it better" instructions.

4. Uses Ultrathink

Extended thinking allows the model to:

  • Analyze the current state thoroughly
  • Consider multiple improvement options
  • Choose the highest-impact changes
  • Think through edge cases

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Best Models for This Task

ModelEffectiveness
Claude Code + Opus 4.5Excellent
Codex + GPT 5.2 (High/Extra-High reasoning)Excellent
Gemini CLIGood

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Tech Stack Compatibility

This prompt works with:

  • Next.js 16 + React 19 + Tailwind 4
  • Any modern web framework
  • Applications using Framer Motion or similar animation libraries
  • Pretty much anything—it's generic enough to adapt

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Iteration Protocol

Single Agent

# First pass
[Run the UI/UX polish prompt]

# Review changes
[Agent makes improvements]

# Second pass
[Run the same prompt again]

# Repeat 10+ times until changes become minimal

Multiple Agents

You can have more than one agent working on UI/UX polish simultaneously:

  • They'll focus on different areas
  • Use file reservations to avoid conflicts
  • Compound improvements faster

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When to Use vs. When NOT to Use

USE This Prompt When:

  • App works correctly
  • Basic styling is in place
  • You want to elevate from "decent" to "world-class"
  • Ready for iterative refinement
  • Want to optimize for both desktop and mobile

DON'T Use This Prompt When:

  • App is broken or buggy (fix bugs first)
  • Styling is fundamentally wrong (need complete overhaul)
  • No basic design system in place
  • Starting from scratch

For complete overhauls, use a different approach focused on establishing a design system and component library first.

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What the Model Typically Improves

Visual Polish

  • Spacing and padding consistency
  • Typography hierarchy
  • Color contrast and accessibility
  • Shadow and depth effects
  • Border radius consistency
  • Hover/focus states

Interaction Design

  • Button feedback
  • Loading states
  • Transitions and animations
  • Error state handling
  • Empty state design

Mobile Optimization

  • Touch target sizes
  • Responsive breakpoints
  • Mobile-specific navigation
  • Gesture support
  • Performance on mobile devices

Desktop Optimization

  • Keyboard navigation
  • Hover states
  • Multi-column layouts
  • Sidebar navigation
  • Power user shortcuts

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Tracking Progress

After each iteration, you might notice:

  • Subtle shadow improvements
  • Better spacing rhythm
  • More consistent typography
  • Smoother animations
  • Better responsive behavior

These small changes compound. An app after 10 passes looks dramatically better than after 1 pass.

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Integration with Beads

For systematic UI/UX work, create beads:

bd create "Polish homepage UI/UX for desktop" -t enhancement -p 2
bd create "Polish homepage UI/UX for mobile" -t enhancement -p 2
bd create "Polish dashboard UI/UX for desktop" -t enhancement -p 2
bd create "Polish dashboard UI/UX for mobile" -t enhancement -p 2

This lets agents work on UI/UX polish as part of the normal bead workflow.

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Complete Prompt Reference

Main Polish Prompt

I still think there are strong opportunities to enhance the UI/UX look and feel and to make everything work better and be more intuitive, user-friendly, visually appealing, polished, slick, and world class in terms of following UI/UX best practices like those used by Stripe, don't you agree? And I want you to carefully consider desktop UI/UX and mobile UI/UX separately while doing this and hyper-optimize for both separately to play to the specifics of each modality. I'm looking for true world-class visual appeal, polish, slickness, etc. that makes people gasp at how stunning and perfect it is in every way.  Use ultrathink.

Alternative: General Scrutiny (from agent-swarm-workflow)

Great, now I want you to super carefully scrutinize every aspect of the application workflow and implementation and look for things that just seem sub-optimal or even wrong/mistaken to you, things that could very obviously be improved from a user-friendliness and intuitiveness standpoint, places where our UI/UX could be improved and polished to be slicker, more visually appealing, and more premium feeling and just ultra high quality, like Stripe-level apps.

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Tips

1. Don't skip iterations — Even when changes seem small, keep going 2. Review changes — Make sure the model isn't breaking things 3. Test on real devices — Desktop browser != mobile experience 4. Consider accessibility — WCAG compliance matters 5. Keep performance in mind — Pretty but slow is bad UX

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FAQ

When should you not use ui-ux-polish?

Do not use it when the app is broken or buggy, styling is fundamentally wrong, or there is no basic design system in place.

Why run the prompt multiple times?

Each pass makes small incremental improvements that compound, so an app after 10 passes looks dramatically better than after 1.

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