# Design Apple Interfaces for Every Platform

Cross-platform Apple products can feel inconsistent when one interface is reused everywhere. This skill applies platform-specific HIG guidance to navigation, input, layout, accessibility, and implementation planning.

## Install

```bash
npx skillstore add sickn33/hig-platforms
```

## Metadata

- Status: approved
- Slug: sickn33-hig-platforms
- Skillstore revision: r2
- Version status: missing
- Tree hash: e873a731572380ca975d754ebd536e40192bcde852a5ffc56e39afb73068f6e1
- Author: sickn33
- GitHub username: sickn33
- License: MIT
- Repository: https://github.com/sickn33/antigravity-awesome-skills/tree/main/skills/hig-platforms
- 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-platforms
- Manifest: https://skillstore.pages.dev/api/skills/sickn33-hig-platforms/manifest

## Capabilities

- Recommends navigation, layout, and input patterns for seven Apple platform contexts.
- Compares platform differences in structured tables.
- Adapts an existing interface concept to another Apple platform.
- Suggests platform APIs and implementation considerations.
- Reviews games for display, interaction, accessibility, and platform conventions.
- Accounts for device context, supported frameworks, and operating system targets.

## Use Cases

- Adapt an Existing Product: Translate an established iPhone workflow into native iPadOS or macOS patterns without losing product intent.
- Plan Platform Architecture: Map shared features to platform-specific navigation, input methods, APIs, and operating system constraints.
- Review a Multiplatform Experience: Identify inconsistent interactions, accessibility gaps, and device-specific usability risks before implementation.

## Prompt Templates

### Review One Screen

```
Review this [platform] screen for navigation, input, layout, and accessibility: [description]. Return prioritized recommendations with HIG rationale.
```

### Adapt a Workflow

```
Adapt this existing [source platform] workflow for [target platform]: [workflow]. Compare navigation, input, multitasking, and layout changes in a table.
```

### Plan a Shared Feature

```
Plan [feature] across iOS, watchOS, and visionOS. Define each platform's use context, interaction model, information density, and implementation notes.
```

### Create a Platform Strategy

```
Create a design strategy for [product] targeting [platforms]. Include shared intent, platform-specific architecture, API choices, accessibility risks, and validation criteria.
```

## Limitations

- The bundled guidance is a snapshot and may not reflect later Apple updates.
- The skill provides design recommendations but does not build or test an application.
- API availability and behavior still require verification against current developer documentation.
- Accessibility guidance does not replace audits with assistive technologies and representative users.

## Best Practices

- Provide the target platforms, primary use context, supported frameworks, and minimum operating system versions.
- Describe the current workflow before requesting a platform adaptation.
- Validate recommendations with current Apple documentation, prototypes, accessibility checks, and device testing.

## Anti Patterns

- Do not copy one platform interface unchanged across every Apple device.
- Do not ignore each platform's primary input method, viewing distance, or ergonomic constraints.
- Do not treat recommendations as proof of technical feasibility or accessibility compliance.

## Security Audit

- Audited at: 2026-07-23T23:53:19.257\+00:00
- Summary: All 20 static findings are false positives with clear contextual evidence. The reconnaissance matches ordinary HIG prose or Markdown images, while the backticks mark a path and the URLs are passive links. No executable commands, active network requests, prompt injection, or malicious intent were found.

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