Dashboard Design Skills for AI Agents

Dashboard design skills help an agent turn raw data into a decision surface rather than a wall of tiles. Skills in this topic cover metrics — choosing the few numbers that drive action instead of vanity counts — plus layout and hierarchy, so the most important comparison is the first thing the eye hits. They also address chart choice, matching the question (compare, trend, part-to-whole) to a chart that answers it, and interaction, letting a viewer narrow from overview down to the row that explains the number. Alerting and exception skills make the unusual state loud instead of treating every tile as equally urgent, and color and access skills treat color as a channel that must work without hue. Use the ranked list by scanning for the sub-topic you are weakest on, then pick the skill whose description matches that gap.

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Start with these.

A dashboard is a decision surface: pick the few measures that matter, give them a hierarchy, choose honest charts, and make exceptions obvious.

These are the closest matches for this work. Start with the first one and open it to install.

Which numbers belong on the screen, and which are vanity.The most important comparison should be the first thing the eye hits.Match the question (compare, trend, part-to-whole) to a chart that answers it.How a viewer narrows from overview into the row that explains the number.Make the unusual state loud; do not make every tile equally urgent.Color is a channel, not decoration — and it has to work without hue.

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  1. Rank 04
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    interface-design

    Craft-first interface design for dashboards, admin panels, SaaS apps, and data interfaces, covering visual hierarchy, tokens, states, and design-system consistency. Explicitly scoped to dashboard and data-interface design.

    • Layout & hierarchy
    28,822 · popularity
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  2. Rank 05
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    grafana-dashboards

    Creates and manages production Grafana dashboards for real-time system and application metrics, covering hierarchy, RED/USE methods, panel types, and alerting. Directly about dashboard design for monitoring.

    12,605 · popularity
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    dashboard-builder

    Builds monitoring dashboards for Grafana, SigNoz, and similar platforms that answer operator questions, covering health, latency, throughput, and saturation panels. Directly about operational dashboard design.

    • Alerting & exceptions
    8,163 · popularity
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  4. Rank 07
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    chart-designer

    Designs effective data visualizations and charts, recommending chart types and generating ECharts/Chart.js configurations, with dashboard layout and best-practice guidance. Directly covers chart choice and dashboard design.

    • Metrics
    • Layout & hierarchy
    • Chart choice
    5,061 · popularity
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    impeccable

    Frontend interface design skill covering dashboards, product UI, hierarchy, accessibility, theming, and design systems with a craft-focused workflow. Broadly relevant to dashboard design but not dashboard-specific.

    • Layout & hierarchy

    Needs (stated): Node.js

    319,215 · popularity
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  2. Rank 10
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    mies

    Design taste skill for ruthless reduction and craft in user-facing interfaces, including dashboards, with tokens, hierarchy, states, and motion. Relevant to dashboard craft but general interface design.

    8,548 · popularity
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  3. Rank 11
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    penpot-uiux-design

    Comprehensive UI/UX design guide for Penpot covering design systems, dashboards, forms, navigation, accessibility, and platform guidelines. Can design dashboards but is a general Penpot UI/UX guide.

    • Color & access
    12,684 · popularity
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  4. Rank 12
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    web-design-engineer

    Builds polished browser-rendered visual artifacts with HTML/CSS/JS/React, including dashboards, prototypes, and data visualizations. Can build dashboards but is a broad web design engineering skill.

    7,763 · popularity
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  5. Rank 13
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    frontend-design-direction

    Sets a frontend design direction for production UI including dashboards, covering hierarchy, typography, color, motion, and anti-generic patterns. Relevant to dashboard visual direction but general frontend design.

    • Layout & hierarchy
    • Color & access
    6,663 · popularity
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  6. Rank 14
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    frontend-design

    Official

    Guidance for distinctive, intentional visual design when building new UI or reshaping an existing one. Helps with aesthetic direction, typography, and making choices that don't read as templated defaults.

    • Color & access
    765,703 · popularity
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  7. Rank 15
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    industrial-brutalist-ui

    Industrial brutalist and tactical telemetry UI design system with rigid grids, extreme type scale, and utilitarian color for data-heavy dashboards. Directly addresses dashboard aesthetics but is a specific visual style.

    • Color & access
    363,309 · popularity
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  8. Rank 16
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    baseline-ui

    Enforces an opinionated UI baseline fixing spacing, hierarchy, typography, and layout issues to prevent AI-generated interface slop. Relevant to dashboard polish and hierarchy but general UI cleanup.

    21,809 · popularity
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  9. Rank 17
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    observability-and-instrumentation

    Instruments code with logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting so production behavior is visible. Relevant to the metrics and alerting facets of dashboards but is about instrumentation, not dashboard design.

    41,282 · popularity
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  10. Rank 18
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    golang-observability

    Go observability covering structured logging, Prometheus metrics, OpenTelemetry tracing, alerting, and Grafana dashboards. Relevant to metrics and alerting facets but Go-specific and instrumentation-focused.

    36,747 · popularity
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  11. Rank 19
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    startup-metrics-framework

    Tracks and calculates startup KPIs like MRR, churn, CAC/LTV, and burn for investor and board dashboards. Relevant to the metrics facet of dashboards but is a metrics framework, not dashboard design.

    10,732 · popularity
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  12. Rank 20
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    firecrawl-dashboard-reporting

    Pulls metrics from analytics dashboards and internal web tools with Firecrawl browser, producing structured metric summaries. Relevant to extracting dashboard data but not designing dashboards.

    • Metrics
    31,338 · popularity
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  13. Rank 21
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    nuxt-ui

    Builds UIs with Nuxt UI v4 components and Tailwind theming, including dashboard layouts with sidebar and panels. Relevant to dashboard implementation but is a component-library skill.

    • Color & access
    6,727 · popularity
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  14. Rank 22
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    figma-generate-design

    Official

    Use this skill alongside figma-use when the task involves translating an application page, view, or multi-section layout into Figma. Triggers: 'write to Figma', 'create in Figma from code', 'push page to Figma', 'take this app/page and build it in Figma', 'create a screen', 'build a landing page in Figma', 'update the Figma screen to match code'. This is the preferred workflow skill whenever the user wants to build or update a full page, screen, or view in Figma from code or a description. Discovers design system components, variables, and styles via search_design_system, imports them, and assembles screens incrementally section-by-section using design system tokens instead of hardcoded values.

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  15. Rank 23
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    figma

    Official

    Use the Figma MCP server to fetch design context, screenshots, variables, and assets from Figma, and to translate Figma nodes into production code. Trigger when a task involves Figma URLs, node IDs, design-to-code implementation, or Figma MCP setup and troubleshooting.

    Needs (stated): Node.js

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  16. Rank 24
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    figma-create-design-system-rules

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    Generates custom design system rules for the user's codebase. Use when user says "create design system rules", "generate rules for my project", "set up design rules", "customize design system guidelines", or wants to establish project-specific conventions for Figma-to-code workflows. Requires Figma MCP server connection.

    Needs (stated): MCP server

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  17. Rank 25
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    figma-implement-design

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    Translates Figma designs into production-ready application code with 1:1 visual fidelity. Use when implementing UI code from Figma files, when user mentions "implement design", "generate code", "implement component", provides Figma URLs, or asks to build components matching Figma specs. For Figma canvas writes via `use_figma`, use `figma-use`.

    Needs (stated): Node.js

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  18. Rank 26
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    penpot-design-md

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    Extract a DESIGN.md design-documentation file from a Penpot file: a portable markdown spec (YAML frontmatter with colors/typography/rounded/spacing/components token maps + prose sections: Overview, Colors, Typography, Layout, Shapes, Components, Do's & Don'ts, Iteration Guide, Known Gaps) in the design-md format, grounded in the file's real tokens, library assets, and sampled component styles — never invented. Read-only on the canvas; writes one local markdown file. Triggers: 'generate DESIGN.md', 'create a design.md', 'document the design system as markdown', 'export design guidelines', 'extract design documentation', 'design system spec file', 'make a style guide file from this design'.

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  19. Rank 27
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    penpot-design-to-code-review

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    Review a Penpot design against its implemented code (a source component or Storybook story) and emit a structured DRIFT report. Use when an engineer needs to confirm the build matches the design: extract HTML/CSS from a selection, map its tokens/structure/states to the code component, diff them, and list what each side is missing with severity and a reconciliation. Degrades gracefully to a design-system-token check when no code source is supplied. Triggers: 'design to code review', 'does my code match the design', 'design code parity', 'compare Penpot to my component', 'check this against Storybook', 'extract HTML/CSS from this selection', 'find design drift', 'design implementation diff'.

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  20. Rank 28
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    penpot-audit-tokens

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    Audit a Penpot design for design-system / token GOVERNANCE issues (distinct from accessibility): hardcoded colors where a token exists, off-grid spacing, orphan/unresolved/unused tokens, duplicated values, and detached parts that should be component instances. Produces a severity report and suggests semantic-token swaps. Triggers: 'audit tokens', 'find hardcoded colors', 'token governance', 'check design system consistency', 'find off-grid spacing', 'detect raw values', 'are we using tokens correctly'.

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  21. Rank 29
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    theme-factory

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    Toolkit for styling artifacts with a theme. These artifacts can be slides, docs, reportings, HTML landing pages, etc. There are 10 pre-set themes with colors/fonts that you can apply to any artifact that has been creating, or can generate a new theme on-the-fly.

    • Color & access
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  22. Rank 30
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    brand-guidelines

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    Applies Anthropic's official brand colors and typography to any sort of artifact that may benefit from having Anthropic's look-and-feel. Use it when brand colors or style guidelines, visual formatting, or company design standards apply.

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  23. Rank 31
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    huawei-cloud-monitoring-query

    Queries Huawei Cloud monitoring resources including alarm rules, alarm histories, and dashboards via read-only scripts. Relevant to monitoring dashboards but Huawei-specific and query-only.

    14,449 · popularity
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  24. Rank 32
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    cloud-monitoring-chart-generation

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    >- Generates Google Cloud Monitoring Server-Driven UI (SDUI) Widget and XyChart Protocol Buffer textprotos from resolved PromQL or ListTimeSeries queries. Use when: - Generating valid google.monitoring.dashboard.v1.Widget textprotos, containing PrometheusQuery or TimeSeriesFilter datasets, for use with the Cloud Monitoring Dashboards API, gcloud CLI, or declarative dashboard definitions. - Synthesizing Server-Driven UI (SDUI) widget titles, axis labels, and plot types for Prometheus or ListTimeSeries queries. Don't use for: - Metric discovery or PromQL query generation. For those tasks, use the cloud-monitoring-metric-selection or cloud-monitoring-promql-query skills.

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  25. Rank 33
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    frontend-design-review

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    > Review and create distinctive, production-grade frontend interfaces with high design quality and design system compliance. Evaluates using three pillars: frictionless insight-to-action, quality craft, and trustworthy building. USE FOR: PR reviews, design reviews, accessibility audits, design system compliance checks, creative frontend design, UI code review, component reviews, responsive design checks, theme testing, and creating memorable UI. DO NOT USE FOR: Backend API reviews, database schema reviews, infrastructure or DevOps work, pure business logic without UI, or non-frontend code.

    • Color & access
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  26. Rank 34
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    penpot-build-screen

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    Design production-grade screens in Penpot from a brief, as a senior visual designer — reusing the existing design system (tokens + components) and assembling section by section, never one-shot. Use to create a screen/page/landing/dashboard from a description. NOT for translating existing code (use penpot-build-from-code). Triggers: 'design a dashboard', 'create a landing page', 'design this app screen', 'build a UI from this brief', 'design a settings page', 'mock up a screen in Penpot'.

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  27. Rank 35
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    web-design-guidelines

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    Review UI code for Web Interface Guidelines compliance. Use when asked to "review my UI", "check accessibility", "audit design", "review UX", or "check my site against best practices".

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  28. Rank 36
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    antfu-design

    Notable

    antfu-style design conventions, broadened. UnoCSS-first, class-based semantic tokens with dual light/dark for tooling and devtools UIs, plus design-read, anti-slop, and micro-interaction polish for landing pages and product surfaces. Use when building or refactoring any interface with UnoCSS.

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  29. Rank 37
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    cloud-monitoring-metric-selection

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    >- Retrieve, query, and identify relevant Google Cloud Monitoring metric descriptors for a GCP service or resource (such as Compute Engine, Spanner, BigQuery, Cloud Run, Cloud SQL, Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage, etc.). Use when asked to find, list, search, or discover GCP metric types, names, kind/value schemas, or descriptors.

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  30. Rank 38
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    penpot-audit-accessibility

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    Audit a Penpot design against WCAG 2.1/2.2 AA (optionally AAA) and produce a structured severity report: color contrast, touch/target sizes, text alternatives, heading hierarchy, and keyboard/focus order. Proposes fixes — does not auto-apply. Also serves as the Evaluator in the brief-to-screen loop. Triggers: 'check accessibility', 'accessibility audit', 'WCAG check', 'contrast audit', 'a11y review', 'check color contrast', 'is this accessible'.

    • Color & access
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    apple-design

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    Apple's approach to interface design and fluid, physical motion, translated for the web. Use when building or reviewing gesture-driven UI, spring animations, drag/swipe/sheet interactions, momentum and interruptible transitions, translucent materials and depth, typography (optical sizing, tracking, leading), reduced-motion, or the design foundations (feedback, spatial consistency, restraint) behind Apple-style interfaces.

    144,605 · popularity
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What this topic covers

What this topic covers

Each sub-topic groups Agent Skills for a specific situation.

Metrics
Which numbers belong on the screen, and which are vanity.
Layout & hierarchy
The most important comparison should be the first thing the eye hits.
Chart choice
Match the question (compare, trend, part-to-whole) to a chart that answers it.
Interaction
How a viewer narrows from overview into the row that explains the number.
Alerting & exceptions
Make the unusual state loud; do not make every tile equally urgent.
Color & access
Color is a channel, not decoration — and it has to work without hue.
Frequently asked questions

Frequently asked questions

How is this list ordered?
The list is ranked by observed search demand. Direct matches to the topic come first, and there is a cap on how many skills any single publisher can occupy.
What separates a dashboard skill from a general charting skill?
Dashboard skills treat the screen as a decision surface: they pick the few measures that matter, give them hierarchy, and make exceptions obvious. Charting skills focus on rendering a single chart rather than composing a whole view.
Which sub-topic should I start with?
Start with metrics and layout if your dashboard already exists but nobody acts on it, since the wrong numbers and flat hierarchy are the usual causes. Reach for chart choice, interaction, alerting, or color and access when the structure is sound but a specific question goes unanswered.
Can I combine several of these skills?
Yes. The sub-topics are complementary: metrics decides what is on the screen, layout and hierarchy decides what the eye hits first, and chart choice, interaction, alerting, and color handle how the viewer reads and acts on it.

How to install an Agent Skill

Start with the first skill on this page. Claude Code reads a SKILL.md once it is in the skills directory:

  • Claude Code — copy the SKILL.md for kpi-dashboard-design into ~/.claude/skills/kpi-dashboard-design/ for yourself, or .claude/skills/kpi-dashboard-design/ to share it with a project.
  • From the registry — run npx skills add wshobson/agents@kpi-dashboard-design.
  • Or download kpi-dashboard-design from its source and place that SKILL.md in the directory above.

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