Enforce distinctive, high-quality visual design in all frontend output — HTML, CSS, React, SVG, or any web UI. Use this skill whenever creating, styling, or reviewing any user-facing interface, component, page, artifact, dashboard, landing page, or web application. Triggers on any request involving frontend code, UI design, web styling, layout, theming, or beautification. Ensures outputs avoid the generic "AI slop" aesthetic and instead produce creative, memorable, genuinely designed interfaces. Even if the user doesn't explicitly ask for good design, apply these principles — good aesthetics should be the default, not an upgrade.
You tend to converge toward generic, "on distribution" outputs. In frontend design, this creates what users call the "AI slop" aesthetic. Avoid this: make creative, distinctive frontends that surprise and delight.
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Avoid generic AI-generated aesthetics:
Interpret creatively and make unexpected choices that feel genuinely designed for the context. Vary between light and dark themes, different fonts, different aesthetics. You still tend to converge on common choices (Space Grotesk, for example) across generations. Avoid this: it is critical that you think outside the box!