# Design Apple Navigation Components with HIG Guidance

Choosing the wrong navigation control creates confusing search and browsing experiences. This skill applies Apple HIG guidance to search fields, page controls, and path controls.

## Install

```bash
npx skillstore add sickn33/hig-components-search
```

## Metadata

- Status: approved
- Slug: sickn33-hig-components-search
- Skillstore revision: r2
- Version status: missing
- Tree hash: 2fa949ff5ec7fa62dd14b9b5cd0e88dc6be8c25347a76666613cdc939f7f0e30
- Author: sickn33
- GitHub username: sickn33
- License: MIT
- Repository: https://github.com/sickn33/antigravity-awesome-skills/tree/main/skills/hig-components-search
- Ref: 88a8e9a07f4c54ab105c1c41b6267c287146b07b
- Supported tools: Claude, Codex, Claude Code
- Audit status: complete
- Agent install advisory: allowed
- Manual install advisory: allowed
- Artifact signature: available
- Audit attestation: unavailable
- Human verification: not\_verified
- Risk factors: external\_commands, network
- Quality score: 75
- Public page: https://skillstore.pages.dev/skills/sickn33-hig-components-search
- Manifest: https://skillstore.pages.dev/api/skills/sickn33-hig-components-search/manifest

## Capabilities

- Recommends a search field, page control, or path control for a described navigation task.
- Specifies expected behavior for search typing, page movement, scrubbing, and path navigation.
- Explains platform differences across iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, visionOS, and watchOS.
- Reviews search placement, scopes, suggestions, tokens, and empty-state behavior.
- Evaluates page-control indicator count, styling, positioning, and interaction choices.
- Describes standard and pop-up path controls for macOS file hierarchies.

## Use Cases

- Plan Mobile Search: Choose search placement, focus behavior, scopes, and suggestions for an iOS or iPadOS content experience.
- Review Paginated Onboarding: Check whether page controls fit a flat onboarding sequence and define indicator behavior.
- Design File Navigation: Select a standard or pop-up path control for a macOS file workflow.

## Prompt Templates

### Choose a Component

```
Recommend a search field, page control, or path control for [workflow] on [platform]. Explain why it fits.
```

### Specify Search Behavior

```
Design search for [content type] on [platform]. Cover placement, focus, suggestions, scopes, results, empty states, and clearing behavior.
```

### Review Page Controls

```
Review this [page sequence] for Apple HIG alignment. Assess page count, indicator design, placement, tapping, scrubbing, animation, and platform constraints.
```

### Create a Cross-Platform Specification

```
Create a navigation component specification for [product]. Compare iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, visionOS, and watchOS where relevant. Identify unsupported controls and alternatives.
```

## Limitations

- The skill provides design guidance but does not implement or test interface code.
- Its references are snapshots and may not include later Apple guideline changes.
- Path controls apply only to macOS according to the included guidance.
- Recommendations still require validation with product requirements, accessibility testing, and target devices.

## Best Practices

- Provide the target platform, content type, dataset size, and importance of search.
- Describe whether navigation is flat, hierarchical, or focused on discovery.
- Validate recommendations against current Apple documentation and real device behavior.

## Anti Patterns

- Do not use page controls for hierarchical or nonsequential navigation.
- Do not request implementation code when only a design recommendation is needed.
- Do not apply macOS path-control guidance to unsupported Apple platforms.

## Security Audit

- Audited at: 2026-07-23T23:32:35.402\+00:00
- Summary: All ten static findings are false positives caused by ordinary design prose, Markdown formatting, or attribution links. No command execution, system reconnaissance, unauthorized network behavior, prompt injection, or malicious intent was found.

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