Escape generic AI-looking frontends using ux-skill

Install the ux-skill design intelligence engine (featuring 152 anti-pattern rules, 160 brand guidelines, and a 7-axis synthesizer) to inject deterministic constraints into AI coding tools like Cursor and Claude Code, ensuring generated UIs break away from cookie-cutter AI web aesthetics.

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Added 2026-10-31 · originally published 2026-10-25

Key points

Install `uxskill` via `pip install uxskill` and integrate it as a design intelligence engine into 17 mainstream IDEs and AI coding tools.
Leverage the Python inference core and 7-axis synthesizer (warmth, contrast, density, geometry, formality, motion, typography) to deterministically map and compile requirements into fresh design tokens.
Perform evaluations with hard bottoms: outputs that drop brand colors, logos, or lack realistic images are marked as immediate failures.
Adopt mobile-first and overflow-prevention gates to intercept horizontal scrolling, wrapping navigation, and excessively sticky headers.
Use 152 deterministic anti-pattern checkers (anti-AI-slop linter) to prevent generic visual outputs.

Pitfalls

Using generic AI styles (AI slop) such as soft purple gradients, leading to a lack of brand recognition.
Dropping brand colors, logos, or producing outputs completely devoid of realistic images.
Encountering mobile adaptation issues such as horizontal scrolling, navigation or title wrapping errors, and excessively sticky headers.

.cursorrules

- You must ensure the integrity of brand colors and logos, strictly prohibiting generic UIs without brand characteristics.
- Ensure pages include realistic images (using seeded picsum); low-quality generic AI placeholder images are strictly prohibited.
- Guarantee responsive design, preventing horizontal scrolling, navigation/wordmark/button label wrapping, or excessively high sticky headers.
- Constrain code output through deterministic design systems and anti-pattern linters to avoid generating generic AI-style interfaces.

Copy-ready prompt

Please write the frontend code for [Project Name]. When designing and implementing the UI, you must avoid generic AI styles and strictly follow these constraints: 1. Ensure brand fidelity—primary colors must be justified, and brand colors or logos must not be lost; 2. Must include realistic image placeholders (using seeded picsum, disabling random or meaningless placeholders); 3. Strictly follow mobile-first and component behavior standards, eliminating unnecessary horizontal scrolling and text-wrap errors.

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