providing-feedbacklisted
Install: claude install-skill ancoleman/ai-design-components
# Providing User Feedback and Notifications
This skill implements comprehensive feedback and notification systems that enhance all other component skills by providing consistent patterns for communicating system state, displaying messages, and handling user confirmations.
## When to Use This Skill
Activate this skill when:
- Implementing toast notifications or snackbars
- Displaying success, error, warning, or info messages
- Creating modal dialogs or confirmation dialogs
- Implementing progress indicators (spinners, progress bars, skeleton screens)
- Designing empty states or zero-result displays
- Adding tooltips or contextual help
- Determining notification timing, stacking, or positioning
- Implementing accessible feedback patterns with ARIA
- Communicating any system state to users
## Feedback Type Decision Matrix
Choose the appropriate feedback mechanism based on urgency and attention requirements:
```
Critical + Blocking → Modal Dialog
Important + Non-blocking → Alert Banner
Success/Info + Temporary → Toast/Snackbar
Contextual Help → Tooltip/Popover
In-progress → Progress Indicator
No Data → Empty State
```
### Quick Reference by Urgency
| Urgency Level | Component | Duration | Blocks Interaction |
|---------------|-----------|----------|-------------------|
| **Critical** | Modal Dialog | Until action | Yes |
| **Important** | Alert Banner | Until dismissed | No |
| **Standard** | Toast | 3-7 seconds | No |
| **Co