creative-director
Lets your agent act as a creative art director. It uses various techniques to generate ideas and evaluate designs.
What it does
This AI assistant acts as a creative director. It uses various techniques to evaluate and improve design ideas, following a 5-phase process from concept to final presentation.
When to use it
- ✓When you need creative ideas for a project.
- ✓When you want to evaluate and refine a design concept.
- ✓When preparing a creative project presentation.
Example of what to ask your AI
“I need creative ideas for a new advertising campaign for a soft drink.”
Want more? Open the sections below.
How to use
The easiest way: copy the message below and paste it into Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any AI. It reads the skill and follows the instructions.
Skill link
Ready-to-paste message
How it works
It analyzes your request, uses over 20 creative methods to generate and evaluate options, and follows a structured process to deliver the final result.
Installation
Easiest way: copy the skill link and paste it into Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor asking it to follow the instructions.
In the terminal (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor), in your project folder:
npx skills add nexu-io/open-design --skill creative-directorOr download just the file:
curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nexu-io/open-design/main/skills/creative-director/SKILL.md -o SKILL.mdTechnical content (original SKILL.md)
Original text by the author, straight from GitHub.
creative-director
Curated from @smixs.
What it does
AI creative director with recursive self-assessment: 20+ methodologies (SIT, TRIZ, Bisociation, SCAMPER, Synectics), 3-axis evaluation calibrated against Cannes/D&AD/HumanKind, 5-phase process from brief to presentation.
OpenDesign orchestration mode
When this skill is invoked inside OpenDesign, treat it as the design-flow director, not as a single polish checklist.
- Define what "good-looking" means before changing pixels: audience, product goal, brand posture, style references, information density, typography, palette, motion tone, asset needs, and explicit anti-patterns such as generic AI gradients, empty cards, vague copy, and template symmetry.
- Inspect the current target: HTML/page element, browser tab, design file, active design system, attached image, or project folder.
- Search across every available OpenDesign resource, not only this skill: skills, plugins, MCP servers and templates, connected connectors, design files, active browser/context, and user-provided assets.
- Match resources into a staged workflow. Typical lanes are critique, style-direction selection, visual asset generation, motion, data/proof grounding, implementation polish, responsive/accessibility hardening, and final verification.
- When the design target or aesthetic bar is ambiguous, present a small guided UI-style choice set or form with a recommended default. Continue the workflow after the choice instead of stopping at a generic question.
- If the best resource is not configured yet, explain why it is needed and guide setup; otherwise use the closest configured alternative and mark the tradeoff.
Source
- Upstream: https://github.com/smixs/creative-director-skill
- Category:
creative-direction
How to use
This catalogue entry advertises the skill in OpenDesign so the agent discovers it during planning. To run the full upstream workflow with its original assets, scripts, and references, install the upstream bundle into your active agent's skills directory:
# Inspect the upstream README for exact paths
open https://github.com/smixs/creative-director-skill
Then ask the agent to invoke this skill by name (creative-director) or with
one of the trigger phrases listed in this skill's frontmatter.
FAQ
What are the 'methodologies' mentioned?
These are different techniques and tools the AI uses to stimulate creativity and solve design problems, such as SCAMPER or TRIZ.
What does '3-axis evaluation' mean?
It's a way for the AI to measure the quality of ideas by comparing them against recognized success standards (like advertising awards) and what is good for people.
How does the AI help me define 'good-looking'?
Before making changes, the AI asks about the audience, product goal, brand, and other details to ensure the final design meets your needs.
Details
Original description by the author
AI creative director with recursive self-assessment: 20+ methodologies (SIT, TRIZ, Bisociation, SCAMPER, Synectics), 3-axis evaluation calibrated against Cannes/D&AD/HumanKind, 5-phase process from brief to presentation.
repo: nexu-io/open-design
Popularity
- GitHub stars
- 101k
- Ranking position
- #676
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Updated
- 10/16/2026
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