family-taste

A skill for AI coding agents encoding the design philosophy behind Family — a product widely praised for feeling alive, welcoming, and intentional.

Available Skills

design-with-taste

Apply the "Family Values" design philosophy to every UI you build. Enforces three core principles — Simplicity (gradual revelation), Fluidity (seamless transitions), and Delight (selective emphasis) — so that every output feels crafted, intentional, and alive.

Use when:

• Building any user-facing interface, component, or page
• Creating frontends, dashboards, landing pages, or apps
• The result should feel alive — not like generic AI output

Principles covered:

• Simplicity — One primary action per view, progressive disclosure, context-preserving overlays
• Fluidity — No instant show/hide, shared element transitions, directional consistency, the golden easing curve
• Delight — Delight-Impact Curve, animated numbers, celebration moments, polished empty states

Installation

npx skills add cristicretu/family-taste-skill

Usage

Once installed, the agent will apply the Family design philosophy whenever building UI. Pair it with frontend-design for maximum effect — this skill handles feel and interaction quality while frontend-design handles visual aesthetics.

Examples:

Build me a transaction dashboard

Create an onboarding flow for my app

Design a settings page

Skill Structure

skills/
└── design-with-taste/
    └── SKILL.md

Credits

The design philosophy in this skill is entirely the work of Benji Taylor, documented in his essay Family Values. The three pillars — Simplicity, Fluidity, and Delight — were developed while building Family, a self-custody crypto wallet for iOS.

This skill is a structured reformatting of his ideas to make them actionable for AI coding agents. All credit belongs to Benji and the Family team.

License

MIT