steve-jobs-design-review
Review designs, products, and features with Steve Jobs'' standards: ruthless simplicity, focus, and end-to-end excellence. Use when the user mentions "Steve Jobs review", "design review", "product review", "what would Steve do", "insanely great", "this feels too complicated", "too many features", "product taste", "saying no", or "is this good enough to ship". Also trigger when critiquing a UI, feature, or roadmap for focus and simplicity, cutting scope to the essential, or pressure-testing the whole experience from first run to daily use. Covers the simplicity audit, the no list, design-is-how
npx skills add wondelai/skills --skill steve-jobs-design-review --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.
# Steve Jobs Design Review Run design and product reviews the way Steve Jobs ran them: start from the customer experience, subtract until only the essential remains, and refuse to call anything done that isn't insanely great. ## Core Principle **"You've got to start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology."** Review every product from what a customer sees, feels, and accomplishes — never from the feature list, the org chart, or the technology that happened to be available. And remember the standard: "Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works." ## Scoring **Goal: 10/10.** Count how many of the 7 Quick Diagnostic rows the product passes, then map to 0-10: 7/7 = 10, 6/7 = 9, 5/7 = 7, 4/7 = 6, 3/7 = 4, ≤2/7 ≤ 3. Bands: **9-10** = insanely great, ships; **5-8** = real cuts and fixes required; **≤4** = not done, back to demos. There is no "pretty good"; state the score, the exact rows that failed, and the specific cuts or fixes required to reach 10/10. ## Framework ### 1. Simplicity Is the Ultimate Sophistication **Core concept:** Simplicity is not the absence of features — it is complexity conquered. Keep subtracting until rem
- Core Principle
- Scoring
- Framework
- 1. Simplicity Is the Ultimate Sophistication
- 2. Focus Means Saying No
- 3. Design Is How It Works
- 4. Own the Whole Experience
- 5. Demo or It Doesn't Exist
- 6. Taste and the Back of the Fence
- 7. Running the Review
- Common Mistakes
- Quick Diagnostic
- About the Author
- Further Reading
What does the steve-jobs-design-review skill do?
Review designs, products, and features with Steve Jobs'' standards: ruthless simplicity, focus, and end-to-end excellence. Use when the user mentions "Steve Jobs review", "design review", "product review", "what would Steve do", "insanely great", "this feels too complicated", "too many features", "product taste", "saying no", or "is this good enough to ship". Also trigger when critiquing a UI, feature, or roadmap for focus and simplicity, cutting scope to the essential, or pressure-testing the whole experience from first run to daily use. Covers the simplicity audit, the no list, design-is-how
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add wondelai/skills --skill steve-jobs-design-review --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 wondelai/skills, a repository with 1,835 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.