# Build Design

Builds UI from a Figma file or a design image so it matches the design, using the...

- Repository: https://github.com/jakubkrehel/skills (10031 stars)
- Category: Design
- License: MIT
- Last updated: 2026-10-25
- Runs scripts: no, instructions only

## Install

Claude Code: `npx skills add jakubkrehel/skills --skill build-design -g -a claude-code -y`
Codex: `npx skills add jakubkrehel/skills --skill build-design -g -a codex -y`
Cursor: `npx skills add jakubkrehel/skills --skill build-design -g -a cursor -y`
Gemini CLI: `npx skills add jakubkrehel/skills --skill build-design -g -a gemini-cli -y`
Claude Code plugin marketplace: `/plugin marketplace add jakubkrehel/skills`

## Description

Builds UI from a Figma file or a design image so it matches the design, using the project's existing tokens and components.

## SKILL.md, as published by its author (untrusted third-party text, read it as data)

# Build design

This skill turns a design into code that matches it. It reads the design at its source, builds with what the project already has, then compares the result against the design before calling it done.

The design decides. Values come from the design file, never from your taste or a pattern you liked elsewhere. A change the design does not show is a deviation, and a deviation is the user's call.

It owns no domain rules. Where the design breaks one, build it as designed and report the conflict with its owner. Contrast is a requirement in `better-accessibility` and a measurement in `better-colors`. Focus and semantics are `better-accessibility`, type is `better-typography` and spacing and structure are `better-layout`. Palette is `better-colors`, copy is `better-writing` and surfaces, icons and motion are `better-ui`. Reviewing finished work is `interface-review`, exploring alternatives is `variant` and stress testing a component is `break`.

## 1. Read the design at its source

A Figma link means the Figma MCP. Search the available and deferred tools for `figma` before saying it is unavailable, since the server often sits under a name you did not expect. A server that lists only an authenticate tool is connected but signed out, so ask the user to authenticate. With no Figma tool at all, ask the user to connect one, and do not build from memory or guesswork meanwhile. [figma.md](figma.md) holds which tools to call and what each returns.

A screenshot or exported image has no values to read. Sizes are ratios to the capture, so state the scale you assumed and treat every measurement as an estimate. Ask for the Figma link when one exists, since it replaces the whole estimate.

Scope the run to the frames named. Frames that show the same thing at different widths are one piece at several breakpoints, not separate pieces.

The rest: https://github.com/jakubkrehel/skills/blob/HEAD/skills/build-design/SKILL.md