Anti Slop

Color Slop (flag on sight)

• Purple-to-blue gradient on white background
• Teal + coral accent combo
• Generic "tech blue" (#4A90D9 vicinity)
• Indigo primary with gray secondary
• Any gradient that looks like a Stripe marketing page clone

Layout Slop (restructure)

• Hero section: big text, subtitle, two buttons, background image/gradient
• Three-column feature grid with icons
• Alternating left-right content blocks
• Testimonial carousel with headshots and quotes
• Footer with 4 link columns
• "Trusted by" logo bar

Copy Slop (rewrite)

• "Designed for [broad audience]"
• "The all-in-one platform for..."
• "Powerful yet simple"
• "Join thousands of [users] who..."
• "Get started in minutes"
• "Built for teams of all sizes"

Detection Process

1. Scan — Check output against known slop patterns above
2. Score — Count violations (0 = clean, 1-3 = mild, 4+ = full slop)
3. Diagnose — Identify root cause (lazy default? wrong reference? no creative brief?)
4. Prescribe — Provide specific alternatives that serve the same function with actual personality
5. Verify — Check replacement isn't just different slop

The Test

Ask: "If I showed this to someone without context, could they tell if it was made by a human designer or an AI?" If the answer is AI, it's slop. Start over.

What Anti-Slop Is NOT

• It's not anti-simplicity. Minimal design is great. Generic design is not.
• It's not anti-convention. Conventions exist for good reasons. But they should be chosen, not defaulted to.
• It's not chaos for chaos's sake. Weird isn't automatically good. Intentional is.