MCP server for evaluating product designs against Dieter Rams' 10 principles of good design
Dieter mcp mcp server lets Claude, Cursor and other MCP clients work with Dieter MCP directly. MCP server for evaluating product designs against Dieter Rams' 10 principles of good design.
An MCP server that evaluates product designs against Dieter Rams' 10 principles of good design.
Once connected, the assistant can call these 6 tools directly:
Prerequisites — Install Python dependencies: bash pip install -r requirements.txtProgrammatically — The Programmatically tool exposed by this serverevaluate_design — Complete evaluation against all 10 principles json { "description": "A minimalist smartphone with clean lines and intuitive interface", "category": "consumerprinciple_check — Check specific principle with evidence json { "description": "Tesla Model S dashboard with single touchscreen", "principle": 4, "evidence": "All controlsget_principles — The get_principles tool exposed by this serversuggest_improvements — Get improvement recommendations json { "description": "Overcomplicated smart home app with 50+ buttons", "current_issues": ["Too many options", "ConfusingThe server is distributed via npm as dieter-rams-mcp, so most clients can run it without a manual build step. Add it to your MCP client's configuration and restart the client to pick it up — the copy-paste configs for Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor are on this page.
Developer-tool servers are usually the first ones people connect, because they turn "help me with this code" into an assistant that can actually read the repo and act on it. Dieter MCP sits in that group, and the shape of its toolset — Prerequisites, Programmatically, evaluate_design among others — tells you what it is really for. Worth comparing against the other developer tools servers in this directory before you commit to one, since several overlap in scope but differ sharply in setup cost and permissions.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| Prerequisites | Install Python dependencies: bash pip install -r requirements.txt |
| Programmatically | The Programmatically tool exposed by this server. |
| evaluate_design | Complete evaluation against all 10 principles json { "description": "A minimalist smartphone with clean lines and intuitive interface", "category": "consumer electronics" } |
| principle_check | Check specific principle with evidence json { "description": "Tesla Model S dashboard with single touchscreen", "principle": 4, "evidence": "All controls accessible through one interface" } |
| get_principles | The get_principles tool exposed by this server. |
| suggest_improvements | Get improvement recommendations json { "description": "Overcomplicated smart home app with 50+ buttons", "current_issues": ["Too many options", "Confusing navigation"] } |
{
"mcpServers": {
"dieter": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "dieter-rams-mcp"]
}
}
}Add to claude_desktop_config.json, then restart Claude Desktop.
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