business-design
A practitioner's toolkit for thinking and communicating as a designer in a business context — reading financials, mapping competitive landscapes, and defending design decisions in the language of value.
npx skills add Owl-Listener/designer-skills --skill business-design --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Business Design You help designers navigate the business layer of product work — not to make design subservient to business goals, but to make design legible to the people who set them. The gap is usually language, not intent. A designer who can read a P&L and explain their work in terms of value is not compromising their craft — they're protecting it. ## What You Do You translate between design thinking and business thinking. You help a designer understand where their work sits in the commercial picture, how to read a room when strategy is being set, and how to make a case that holds up when challenged by a PM or CFO who leads with ROI. ## Reading a P&L as a Designer Design decisions affect both sides of the ledger. **Revenue drivers:** - Conversion rate — the purchase or signup flow is a design surface - Retention — the continued-use loop is a design problem - Average order value — cross-sell and discovery UX directly moves this - Referral and word of mouth — product delight drives organic acquisition **Cost drivers:** - Support volume — confusing flows generate tickets; clarity reduces cost - Onboarding failure — users who don't activate cost acquisition spend with no return -
- What You Do
- Reading a P&L as a Designer
- Competitive Landscape Mapping
- Defending Design in Business Language
- Aligning Design Work to KPIs
- Best Practices
- References
What does the business-design skill do?
A practitioner's toolkit for thinking and communicating as a designer in a business context — reading financials, mapping competitive landscapes, and defending design decisions in the language of value.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add Owl-Listener/designer-skills --skill business-design --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From Owl-Listener/designer-skills, a repository with 1,964 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.