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iuryescano/refactoring-ui — explained in plain English

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tl;dr

A Markdown-based instruction set that teaches AI coding agents how to improve a web app's visual design, inspired by the book Refactoring UI.

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    What it does
      Guides AI agents on UI design
      Visual audit checklist
      Concrete refactoring recipes
    Tech stack
      Markdown
    Use cases
      Improve dashboard or form design
      Audit UI hierarchy and spacing
      Configure as agent skill
    Audience
      Vibe coder
      Developer
    Compatible agents
      Codex
      Claude Code
      Cursor
      Kilo Code

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what do people make with this?

VIBE 1

Install the skill into a coding agent so it audits and improves a web app's visual design.

VIBE 2

Point any AI coding agent at the main playbook file before it works on a UI refactoring task.

VIBE 3

Use the included heuristics checklist to manually review hierarchy, spacing, and typography in a project.

VIBE 4

Apply the recipes for common UI problems to fix specific design issues, like unclear action priority.

what's the stack?

Markdown

how it stacks up fr

iuryescano/refactoring-ui09catho/axon0x1-1/revival
Stars131313
LanguageJavaScriptC++
Setup difficultyeasymoderatehard
Complexity1/54/55/5
Audiencevibe coderresearcherdeveloper

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how do i run it?

Difficulty · easy time til it works · 5min

Just copying a folder into an agent's skills directory or pointing an agent at a Markdown file, no code to run.

Use freely for any purpose, including commercial use, as long as you keep the copyright notice.

in plain english

This project packages up an unofficial Agent Skill inspired by the book Refactoring UI by Steve Schoger and Adam Wathan. It is meant to be used by AI coding agents, such as Codex, Claude Code, Cursor, or Kilo Code, to help them improve the visual design of web apps, dashboards, forms, product screens, landing pages, and component libraries. The project is clear that it is not affiliated with the book's authors and does not copy the book's text, it turns that general visual refactoring mindset into its own original, Markdown-based instructions for AI agents. The skill focuses on diagnosing a UI's visual communication first, then making targeted improvements to things like hierarchy, spacing, grouping, typography, which actions get visual priority, color, depth, use of imagery, interface states, and general finishing polish. The repository is organized into a main playbook file that an agent reads before doing UI work, a detailed checklist of visual design heuristics, a set of concrete recipes for fixing common UI problems, and an optional metadata file for OpenAI or Codex-style skill interfaces. Installing it mostly means copying this folder into whichever directory your coding agent uses for skills, or simply pointing any capable agent at the main playbook file and asking it to follow those instructions while working on a UI task. The stated design philosophy behind the skill favors improving clarity before adding decoration, reusing whatever design system already exists in a project rather than inventing new styles, making the primary action and main object of a screen obvious, preferring small targeted visual changes over full rewrites, and checking that the result still works responsively with good contrast and interaction states. The project is released under the MIT license.

prompts (copy fr)

prompt 1
Install the refactor-ui skill from this repo and configure it for my coding agent.
prompt 2
Use refactor-ui to audit and refactor the interface in my current project.
prompt 3
Read refactor-ui/SKILL.md and apply its recommendations to improve this dashboard's layout.
prompt 4
Show me which of this repo's recipes would help fix unclear button hierarchy on my form.

Frequently asked questions

what is refactoring-ui fr?

A Markdown-based instruction set that teaches AI coding agents how to improve a web app's visual design, inspired by the book Refactoring UI.

What license does refactoring-ui use?

Use freely for any purpose, including commercial use, as long as you keep the copyright notice.

How hard is refactoring-ui to set up?

Setup difficulty is rated easy, with roughly 5min to a first successful run.

Who is refactoring-ui for?

Mainly vibe coder.

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