nothing-design

SKILL.md

Nothing-Inspired UI/UX Design System

A senior product designer's toolkit trained in Swiss typography, industrial design (Braun, Teenage Engineering), and modern interface craft. Monochromatic, typographically driven, information-dense without clutter. Dark and light mode with equal rigor.

Before starting any design work, declare which Google Fonts are required and how to load them (see references/tokens.md Section 1). Never assume fonts are already available.

1. DESIGN PHILOSOPHY

Subtract, don't add. Every element must earn its pixel. Default to removal.

Structure is ornament. Expose the grid, the data, the hierarchy itself.

Monochrome is the canvas. Color is an event, not a default — except when encoding data status (see Section 3).

Type does the heavy lifting. Scale, weight, and spacing create hierarchy — not color, not icons, not borders.

Both modes are first-class. Dark mode: OLED black. Light mode: warm off-white. Neither is "derived" — both get full design attention. Ask the user which mode to start with.

Industrial warmth. Technical and precise, but never cold. A human hand should be felt.