Taste

Anti-Slop: Frontend DON'Ts

What NOT to do when designing a UI or page. This is a filter, not a style; it never prescribes a look. Stacking several of the below is what reads as AI-made on sight. Adaptive, so if the user or another skill asks for something specific, do that instead; these are defaults, not overrides.

• purple / indigo / violet accent, or a purple-to-blue hero gradient (the top AI tell)
• bg-clip-text gradient headline text
• cream (#faf8f4) as the whole-page background
• aurora blobs / glowing colored shadows, or an identical glow on every card
• Inter everywhere, or Geist / Space Grotesk / Instrument Serif / Roboto / Arial as your only identity
• gray-400 / gray-500 body text
• one font weight and size throughout (no hierarchy)
• tracked all-caps micro-kickers above every section
• centered hero of eyebrow pill + headline + two CTAs
• the identical 3-card feature grid with a lucide icon in a rounded square
• an 8+ word, 48px+ headline that says nothing
• bento grid for everything
• the same eyebrow-headline-3cards section repeated back to back
• rounded-2xl, or any single radius, on every element
• glassmorphism blur + border + shadow on every surface
• hover:scale-105 lift on cards
• emoji as feature icons (🚀 ⚡ ✨ 🎯 💡)
• left-border accent cards, a colored border on a rounded element, or cards nested inside cards
• fade-up / slide-up on everything as it scrolls in
• motion that ignores prefers-reduced-motion
• scribbly hand-drawn SVG mascots with no purpose