delight
SkillDev toolsDelight is a skill that gives your AI a design language to work from. Once added, your AI follows a set of design guidelines, which improves the quality of the designs it produces.
Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.
No other account needed.
Add the skill, then ask your AI to design or build something. It will follow the guidelines as it works.
Then ask your AI: use the delight skill
What your AI can do with it
- Apply a consistent design language to its work
- Follow a set of design guidelines when creating designs
- Improve the visual quality of what it builds
- Make more considered design choices
- Keep its design output consistent across tasks
What this skill tells your AI
The instructions your AI receives, as published by educlopez/ui-craft in .codex/skills/delight/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.
Context: this sub-skill is one lens of the broader ui-craft skill. If the ui-craft skill is also installed, read its SKILL.md first for Discovery + Anti-Slop + Craft Test, then apply the specific lens below.
Add delight to the UI at $ARGUMENTS. Load the ui-craft skill.
Delight is specificity, not decoration. The goal is one or two moments a user would screenshot — not confetti, not bounce, not emoji.
Candidates, ordered by safety (start at the top):
- Copy specificity — confirmation toasts name the thing ("3 members invited — Alex, Sam, Jordan", not "Invites sent"). Empty states with wit but no cringe ("Nothing here yet — add your first project" > "Oops! Looks like it's empty 😅").
- Hover choreography — multi-property hover (transform + color + shadow) that moves together on one shared duration/easing. One card, not every card.
- State transitions — optimistic UI + tiny success micro-animation (checkmark stroke draw, count-up on a number, subtle scale-and-settle on the updated row).
- One signature detail — custom list markers tied to the domain, asymmetric column offset on a single section, scroll-linked progress that tracks something real (reading progress, form completion).
Never add:
- Bounce easing (
cubic-bezier(0.68, -0.55, 0.27, 1.55)) — flagged in anti-slop. - Confetti on mundane actions (file saved, field updated).
- Emoji spam or "🎉 SUCCESS!" in ALL CAPS.
- Idle float/bob/shimmer on elements that aren't waiting for anything.
Knob gating (MOTION_INTENSITY):
≤ 3→ copy-only delight. No animated delight. Candidate 1 only.4-7→ copy + hover + state transitions (candidates 1-3).8+→ all four, including the signature detail.
References to read: references/motion.md (Decision Ladder + interaction rules), references/copy.md (microcopy voice), ../examples/animation-storyboard.md (if multi-stage).
Output: edit code directly. Print the Review Format table. Flag every candidate you chose not to add and why.
Next step: /finalize — delight is the last additive pass; gate it before shipping (rung 3).
Signals
- GitHub stars
- 326
- Forks
- 17
- Last commit
- Sep 2026
- Hacker News mentions
- 9
Advanced
- Catalog kind
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- Gateway key
delight- Source
- github.com/educlopez/ui-craft