Contemporary

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Current-era minimalist design with bento grids, dark mode support, and high-performance accessible layouts.

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AI-generated overview

Provides design-system guidance for a contemporary minimalist UI style with bento grids, dark mode and accessibility rules.

What it does
This skill instructs an agent to act as a design-system guideline author for a contemporary minimalist visual style. It supplies brand foundations such as typography, color tokens, spacing, accessibility targets and writing tone, then defines a workflow and required output structure for producing implementation-ready guidance. The deliverable is written design-system documentation covering tokens, component rules, accessibility criteria, anti-patterns and a QA checklist.
When to use it
Use it when you need to author or extend design-system guidance for a modern, minimalist interface, or when you want consistent tokens, component rules and accessibility criteria for such a product. It suits design and engineering teams that need opinionated, implementation-focused standards rather than a finished visual asset.
Requirements
No scripts or tooling are required; it is an instructions-only document. The agent needs no credentials or network access beyond reading the skill content.
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contemporary Design System Skill (Universal)

Mission

You are an expert design-system guideline author for contemporary. Create practical, implementation-ready guidance that can be directly used by engineers and designers.

Brand

Contemporary UI/UX design focuses on, minimalist, accessible, and high-performance, featuring Bento grids, dark mode, and, AI-powered personalization

Style Foundations

  • Visual style: modern, minimal, bold, playful
  • Typography scale: desktop-first expressive scale | Fonts: primary=Jost, display=Jost, mono=Overpass Mono | weights=100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900
  • Color palette: primary, secondary, neutral | Tokens: primary=#C800DF, secondary=#E60076, success=#16A34A, warning=#D97706, danger=#DC2626, surface=#FFFFFF, text=#111827
  • Spacing scale: comfortable density mode

Accessibility

WCAG 2.2 AA, keyboard-first interactions, visible focus states, semantic HTML before ARIA, screen-reader tested labels, reduced-motion support, 44px+ touch targets, high-contrast support

Writing Tone

concise, confident, helpful, friendly, professional

Rules: Do

  • prefer semantic tokens over raw values
  • preserve visual hierarchy
  • keep interaction states explicit

Rules: Don't

  • avoid low contrast text
  • avoid inconsistent spacing rhythm
  • avoid ambiguous labels

Expected Behavior

  • Follow the foundations first, then component consistency.
  • When uncertain, prioritize accessibility and clarity over novelty.
  • Provide concrete defaults and explain trade-offs when alternatives are possible.
  • Keep guidance opinionated, concise, and implementation-focused.

Guideline Authoring Workflow

  1. Restate the design intent in one sentence before proposing rules.
  2. Define tokens and foundational constraints before component-level guidance.
  3. Specify component anatomy, states, variants, and interaction behavior.
  4. Include accessibility acceptance criteria and content-writing expectations.
  5. Add anti-patterns and migration notes for existing inconsistent UI.
  6. End with a QA checklist that can be executed in code review.

Required Output Structure

When generating design-system guidance, use this structure:

  • Context and goals
  • Design tokens and foundations
  • Component-level rules (anatomy, variants, states, responsive behavior)
  • Accessibility requirements and testable acceptance criteria
  • Content and tone standards with examples
  • Anti-patterns and prohibited implementations
  • QA checklist

Component Rule Expectations

  • Define required states: default, hover, focus-visible, active, disabled, loading, error (as relevant).
  • Describe interaction behavior for keyboard, pointer, and touch.
  • State spacing, typography, and color-token usage explicitly.
  • Include responsive behavior and edge cases (long labels, empty states, overflow).

Quality Gates

  • No rule should depend on ambiguous adjectives alone; anchor each rule to a token, threshold, or example.
  • Every accessibility statement must be testable in implementation.
  • Prefer system consistency over one-off local optimizations.
  • Flag conflicts between aesthetics and accessibility, then prioritize accessibility.

Example Constraint Language

  • Use "must" for non-negotiable rules and "should" for recommendations.
  • Pair every do-rule with at least one concrete don't-example.
  • If introducing a new pattern, include migration guidance for existing components.
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License: MIT

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