Empty State and Error Experience Designer
Design empty, error, loading, permission, offline, and recovery states with clear guidance, useful actions, accessibility, and product consistency.
Empty State and Error Experience Designer is a free AI skill for ui & web building. Design empty, error, loading, permission, offline, and recovery states with clear guidance, useful actions, accessibility, and product consistency. It works with Claude, ChatGPT and is ready to use out of the box.
About this skill
Design empty, error, loading, permission, offline, and recovery states with clear guidance, useful actions, accessibility, and product consistency. It applies a structured professional workflow, makes assumptions visible, and produces implementation-ready guidance with ownership, controls, edge cases, and validation.
What it does
The skill analyzes goals, users, workflows, evidence, dependencies, constraints, and risks; converts them into a practical operating model; and produces explicit rules, responsibilities, exceptions, controls, tests, and rollout guidance.
What is included
- State context
- State inventory
- Cause and user impact
- Message hierarchy
- Primary and secondary actions
- Recovery paths
- Visual and component guidance
- Accessibility
How to use it
1. Download the empty-state-and-error-experience-designer-SKILL.md file 2. Upload it to your AI, operational, or project workspace 3. Provide the current process, users, goals, evidence, and constraints 4. Add ownership, approval, risk, and implementation requirements 5. Use the output for design, review, testing, and rollout
Examples
Design states for a collaboration platform with no posts, failed search, expired invites, denied permissions, network errors, and deleted content.
A complete professional deliverable with context, decisions, ownership, workflows, edge cases, risks, controls, validation criteria, and an implementation roadmap.
FAQ
What is this skill for?
Will it invent facts or results?
Can it improve an existing process?
Does it include edge cases?
Can it assign ownership?
How is this different from generic advice?
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