telling the AI to "make it better" gives it no target, so it just falls back to the average. i wanted to see how big the gap actually is, so i wrote down what a designer would change and turned it into a small open-source rules file (ai-ui-tells) that coding tools read before they build. test was simple. A = one-shot prompt plus "make it better". B = same prompt with the file. each one in a separate context, then i counted the tells straight from the rendered pages. the brand in it is sample data. landing page: shadows 9 vs 0, eyebrow labels 12 vs 0, font sizes 18 vs 4, contrast failures 8 vs 0 pricing page: shadows 17 vs 0, pills 7 vs 0, eyebrows 24 vs 0, font sizes 23 vs 5 mobile: eyebrows 15 vs 0, radii 10 vs 1, contrast failures 7 vs 0 what the file makes it do: pick a named direction tied to the product before writing any markup (it came back with stuff like "Pool clipboard" and "Darkroom safelight"), then let that color fill the first screen. it also bans the looks people escape to when they try to un-slop, like cream + serif + clay, or near-black with one acid green accent. and it puts all the boldness in one place, at 3x body size or more. a second run on the same brief gives a different direction, which was the part i cared about most. what else would you count as a giveaway? i'm thinking motion and copy next.   submitted by   /u/Clean_Candidate_5496 [link]   [comments]