What problem does it solve?
Paperclip UI design system guide for building consistent, reusable frontend components. Use when creating new UI components, modifying existing ones, adding pages or features to the frontend, styling UI elements, or when you need to understand the design language and conventions. Covers: component creation, design tokens, typography, status/priority systems, composition patterns, and the /design-guide showcase page. Always use this skill alongside the frontend-design skill (for visual quality) and the web-design-guidelines skill (for web best practices).
Core Features & Use Cases
- Design Principles. Dense, keyboard-first, dark-themed by default with consistent tokens and systemic patterns.
- Token & Typography Systems. Centralized tokens and typography scales to ensure consistency across components.
- Conventions & Showcases. Guidance for component creation, status/priority systems, and the /design-guide showcase page; helps align design work with development.
Quick Start
Explore the Design Guide to align new UI components with tokens, typography, and patterns, and reference this skill alongside frontend-design and web-design-guidelines.