SKILL.md
Questions: Ask the user through the environment's question tool — never as plain-text prose. One question at a time, 2–4 tappable options, wait for the answer. If the environment has no question tool, ask in prose with the same options, one at a time.
frontend design deslop
AI-generated UI looks generic for two reasons:
- No constraints. The model samples the statistical median of 2019-2024 web code — Tailwind UI's
bg-indigo-500, Inter, rounded cards, soft shadows. You cannot out-prompt a vacuum. - Designing before knowing what you're designing. A corporate landing page, a creative portfolio, a developer-tool landing page, an analytics dashboard, and an ecommerce product page share almost no design DNA — a beautiful aesthetic that fights the artifact's job is its own slop.
The fix is a discipline borrowed from brand design: strategy drives design, never aesthetics first.
- Commit to words first — what this is, who it serves, the adjectives it must feel like.
- Translate those words into a typography and color system.
- Build from tokens.
- Apply the craft layer (layout, components, motion, iconography, imagery, dark mode, accessibility).
- Audit.
Target the convergence mechanism, not a frozen blocklist; the slop fingerprint shifts over time (purple gradients in 2022, cream backgrounds and italic-serif heroes in 2026).