Hig Components Menus
This pulls Apple's HIG guidance for menus and buttons into Claude, covering everything from macOS menu bars and toolbars to context menus, pop-up buttons, and disclosure controls. It's useful when you're designing UI and need to know whether something should be a pull-down button or a pop-up button, what goes in a dock menu versus the menu bar, or how to structure a toolbar. The skill checks for existing Apple design context before asking questions, which keeps conversations cleaner if you're working across multiple HIG topics. It covers all the standard button styles and menu conventions across iOS, macOS, iPadOS, and visionOS, so you're not guessing at platform differences or reinventing patterns Apple already defined.
- skills.sh installs
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- last updated
- Jun 3, 2026
Install
$ npx -y skills add raintree-technology/apple-hig-skills --skill hig-components-menus --agent claude-codeInstalls into .claude/skills of the current project.
Files
Apple HIG: Menus and Buttons
Check for .claude/apple-design-context.md before asking questions. Use existing context and only ask for information not already covered.
Key Principles
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Menus should be contextual and predictable. Standard items in standard locations. Follow platform conventions for ordering and grouping.
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Use standard button styles. System-defined styles communicate affordance and maintain visual consistency. Prefer them over custom designs.
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Toolbars for frequent actions. Most commonly used commands in the toolbar. Rarely used actions belong in menus.
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Menu bar is the primary command interface on macOS. Every command reachable from the menu bar. Toolbars and context menus supplement, not replace.
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Context menus for secondary actions. Right-click or long-press, relevant to the item under the pointer. Never put a command only in a context menu.
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Pop-up buttons for mutually exclusive choices. Select exactly one option from a set.
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Pull-down buttons for action lists. No current selection; they offer a set of commands.
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- Jun 3, 2026
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