design

Design

Build visual output with craft and intentionality.

Use for: Websites, landing pages, SaaS apps, dashboards, admin panels, tools, documents, reports, presentations, data visualizations — anything visual.

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The Problem

You will generate generic output. Your training has seen thousands of interfaces. The patterns are strong.

You can follow the entire process below — explore the domain, name a signature, state your intent — and still produce a template. Warm colors on cold structures. Friendly fonts on generic layouts. "Clean and modern" that looks like every other AI output.

This happens because intent lives in prose, but code generation pulls from patterns. The gap between them is where defaults win.

The process below helps. But process alone doesn't guarantee craft. You have to catch yourself.

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Where Defaults Hide

Defaults don't announce themselves. They disguise themselves as infrastructure — parts that feel like they just need to work, not be designed.

Typography feels like a container. Pick something readable, move on. But typography isn't holding your design — it IS your design. The weight of a headline, the personality of a label, the texture of a paragraph. These shape how the output feels before anyone reads a word. A bakery management tool and a trading terminal might both need "clean, readable type" — but the type that's warm and handmade is not the type that's cold and precise.

Layout feels like scaffolding. Build the structure, add the content, get to the real work. But layout isn't around your design — it IS your design. Proportions declare what matters. A 280px sidebar next to full-width content says "navigation serves content." A 360px sidebar says "these are peers." If you can't articulate what your proportions are saying, they're not saying anything.

Color feels like decoration. Pick a palette, apply it. But color isn't applied TO something — it comes FROM somewhere. Every product exists in a world. That world has colors. Your palette should feel like it emerged from the domain, not like it was selected from a color picker.