# Hierarchy Principles

> Visual weight, attention order, and the decisions that guide the eye. Use when building layouts, evaluating information architecture, or diagnosing why a design feels confusing.

- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-dragoon0x-taste-skills-hierarchy-principles`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [Dragoon0x](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/dragoon0x)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [Agent Skills](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/agent-skills)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Upstream author:** [Dragoon0x](https://github.com/Dragoon0x)
- **Source:** https://github.com/Dragoon0x/taste-skills/tree/main/skills/visual-language/hierarchy-principles

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-dragoon0x-taste-skills-hierarchy-principles
```

Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent.

## About

# Hierarchy Principles

The single most important thing in any visual design.

## How to use

- `/hierarchy-principles` Apply hierarchy constraints to any design work in this conversation.

## Constraints

### Hierarchy Rules
- MUST establish a clear primary element on every screen. If everything is important, nothing is.
- MUST create hierarchy through at least two of: scale, weight, contrast, color, space, position
- MUST ensure visual weight matches content priority (the most important thing is the most prominent)
- NEVER allow two elements to compete at the same hierarchy level unless intentional tension is the goal
- SHOULD test by covering half the screen. Can you still tell what's most important?

### Hierarchy Tools
- **Scale:** Bigger things get seen first. The ratio between largest and smallest defines your range.
- **Weight:** Bolder things demand attention. Use sparingly or nothing stands out.
- **Contrast:** High-contrast elements pull focus. Low-contrast recedes.
- **Color:** Saturated colors advance. Desaturated retreat. One accent in a neutral system creates instant hierarchy.
- **Space:** More breathing room signals more importance. Crowded elements feel like metadata.
- **Position:** Top-left gets seen first (LTR). Center gets attention. Bottom-right gets ignored unless hierarchy pulls the eye there.

### Anti-Patterns
- Using size as the only hierarchy tool (creates monotonous layouts)
- Making everything bold (negates the purpose of bold)
- Competing calls-to-action on the same screen
- Navigation that's visually louder than the content it serves

## Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

- **Author:** [Dragoon0x](https://github.com/Dragoon0x)
- **Source:** [Dragoon0x/taste-skills](https://github.com/Dragoon0x/taste-skills)
- **License:** MIT

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.

## Pricing

- **Free** — Free

## Security capabilities

Automated source analysis of v0.1.0 — what this tool can access:

- **Network access:** no
- **Filesystem access:** no
- **Shell / process execution:** no
- **Environment & secrets:** no
- **Dynamic code execution:** no

*"Yes" means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it is unsafe.*


## Versions

- **0.1.0** — security scan: passed — Imported from the upstream source.

## Links

- Listing page: https://agentstack.voostack.com/l/skill-dragoon0x-taste-skills-hierarchy-principles
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/dragoon0x
- Browse the marketplace: https://agentstack.voostack.com/browse

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