Skill UI

This guide details Apple's Human Interface Guidelines (HIG) for various presentation components, including alerts, sheets, popovers, and action sheets. It provides best practices on when and how to use these elements to maintain user context, minimize interruptions, and ensure a cohesive design experience across platforms like iOS, macOS, and iPadOS.

This guide provides comprehensive principles and best practices for designing user interface components according to Apple's Human Interface Guidelines (HIG). It covers various components, including menu bars, context menus, toolbars, pop-up buttons, and pull-down controls. It emphasizes creating predictable, consistent, and platform-appropriate user experiences across macOS, iOS, and other Apple platforms, ensuring optimal user flow and discoverability.

Creates or updates the shared Apple design context document so HIG-focused skills can reuse product, platform, and accessibility intelligence before asking redundant questions, and provides a template plus update guidance to keep it current.

Evaluate interfaces against 168 research-backed UX/UI principles, detect antipatterns, and inject UX context during AI-assisted design or coding sessions to surface severity-tagged findings and actionable remediation.