Menu
Apple Human Interface Guidelines for layout and navigation components.
Install with Codex or Claude Copy this prompt, paste it into Codex, Claude, or another assistant, and let it review the skill page and install it for you.
Based on SOC occupation classification
This skill should be used for advanced LLM evaluation: LLM-as-judge systems, direct scoring, pairwise comparison, rubric calibration, evaluator bias mitigation, confidence scoring, and automated quality assessment.
Automated end-to-end UI testing and verification on an Android Emulator using ADB.
This skill should be used when modeling agent mental states with BDI concepts: beliefs, desires, intentions, RDF-to-belief transformations, rational agency traces, cognitive agents, BDI ontologies, and neuro-symbolic AI integration.
Build a premium cinematic landing page with mouse-scrub video hero and brand-driven narrative-arc sections. Use whenever the user provides a hero video plus a product / subject / brand and wants a landing page, promo site, product showcase, marketing page, or storytelling site. Works for any language and any subject. The signature effect is mouse-driven video scrubbing — the hero video lives across the entire page as a fixed backdrop, and moving the mouse left-right scrubs the video timeline so the subject responds to the cursor. Below the hero, 4-5 fully-opaque sections each carry their own brand identity (color, typography emphasis, layout pattern) and walk the viewer through a narrative arc (e.g. longing -> joy -> nostalgia -> contemplation -> action). Do NOT use for parallax frame-scrub landings where the page itself doesn't scroll (use parallax-landing-page instead) or for video editing / captioning workflows (use video-edit).
Convert frontend code (Vite, React, etc.) to a Stitch Design by chaining static HTML extraction, design system extraction, and file upload. **ALWAYS** use this skill when the user's intent is to move existing web apps or React components into Stitch (e.g., requests to "save", "migrate", or "upload"). You must use this skill even for simple "save" operations, as it is the only way to ensure the design system is extracted and assets are properly linked.
This skill should be used for diagnosing and mitigating context degradation: lost-in-middle failures, context poisoning, context clash, context confusion, attention-pattern issues, and agent performance degradation caused by accumulated or conflicting context.
| name | hig-components-layout |
| description | Apple Human Interface Guidelines for layout and navigation components. |
| risk | unknown |
| source | community |
| date_added | 2026-02-27 |
Check for .claude/apple-design-context.md before asking questions. Use existing context and only ask for information not already covered.
Organize hierarchically. Structure information from broad categories to specific details. Sidebars for top-level sections, lists for browsable items, detail views for individual content.
Use standard navigation patterns. Tab bars for flat navigation between peer sections (iPhone). Sidebars for deep hierarchical navigation (iPad, Mac). Match the pattern to the information architecture and platform.
Adapt to screen size. Three-column on iPad collapses to single-column on iPhone. Use size classes and adaptive APIs (NavigationSplitView) for automatic adaptation.
Support multitasking on iPad. Respond gracefully to Split View, Slide Over, and Stage Manager. Test at every split ratio and size class transition.
Maintain spatial consistency on visionOS. Windows, volumes, and ornaments in shared space. Position predictably. Use ornaments for toolbars and controls without occluding content.
Use scroll views for overflow content. Enable paging for discrete content units. Support pull-to-refresh where appropriate. Respect safe areas.
Keep navigation predictable. Users should always know where they are, how they got there, and how to go back. Use back buttons, breadcrumbs, and clear section titles.
Prefer system components. UINavigationController, UISplitViewController, NavigationSplitView, and TabView provide built-in adaptivity, accessibility, and state restoration.
| Reference | Topic | Key content |
|---|---|---|
| sidebars.md | Sidebars | Source lists, selection state, collapsible sections, iPad/Mac patterns |
| column-views.md | Column Views | Finder-style browsing, progressive disclosure through columns |
| outline-views.md | Outline Views | Expandable hierarchies, disclosure triangles, tree structures |
| split-views.md | Split Views | Two/three column layouts, NavigationSplitView, adaptive collapse |
| tab-views.md | Tab Views | Segmented tabs, page-style tabs, macOS tab grouping |
| tab-bars.md | Tab Bars | Bottom tab bars (iOS), badge counts, max tab count |
| scroll-views.md | Scroll Views | Paging, scroll indicators, content insets, pull-to-refresh |
| windows.md | Windows | macOS/visionOS window management, sizing, full-screen, restoration |
| panels.md | Panels | Inspector panels, utility panels, floating panels, macOS conventions |
| lists-and-tables.md | Lists and Tables | Plain/grouped/inset-grouped styles, swipe actions, section headers |
| boxes.md | Boxes | Content grouping containers, labeled boxes, macOS grouping |
| ornaments.md | Ornaments | visionOS toolbar attachments, positioning, visibility |
| App Structure | Recommended Pattern | Platform Adaptation |
|---|---|---|
| 3-5 peer top-level sections | Tab Bar | iPhone: bottom tab bar. iPad: sidebar (.sidebarAdaptable, iPadOS 18+). Mac: sidebar or toolbar tabs |
| Deep hierarchical content | Sidebar + NavigationSplitView | iPhone: single column stack. iPad: two/three columns. Mac: full multi-column |
| Deep file/folder tree | Column View | Mac: Finder-style. iPad: adaptable. iPhone: push navigation |
| Flat list with detail | Split View (two column) | iPhone: push/pop stack. iPad/Mac: primary + detail columns |
| Document-based with inspectors | Window + Panels | Mac: main window with inspector. iPad: sheet or popover |
| Spatial app with tools | Window + Ornaments | visionOS: ornaments on window. Other platforms: toolbars |
Built by Raintree Technology · More developer tools
This skill is applicable to execute the workflow or actions described in the overview.
