Tag · 10 guides

AI Design

Every guide tagged ai-design, sorted by most recent.

Set Up Your AI Design Workspace in 20 Minutes

The plain-language Day 0 guide: which accounts to create, which tools to install first, and how to run one sanity check before you go deeper.

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What to Do When AI Gives You Junk

A practical troubleshooting guide for designers: diagnose bad AI output, recover with better context, and know when to restart instead of polishing.

beginner · 15 min Sign up to read

AI Anti-Patterns Gallery: 10 Reasons Your AI Website Looks Generic

A visual gallery of the 10 most common AI-generated design clichés, why they happen, and the specific rule you can add to your project rules to prevent each one.

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AI for Designers 101

What AI tools are, how they differ, which ones matter for designers, and a practical first-week plan for getting started without the hype.

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The Taste Stack: Project Rules, Local Markdown, and Skills

Why AI-generated websites look the same, and how to fix it with a three-layer system that teaches your AI tool your visual standards, motion language, and copy tone.

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The Design Style Phrasebook

20 style directions with exact phrase blocks you can copy into Claude, Nano Banana, Kling, or any AI tool. Stop saying 'make it premium' and start giving real direction.

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How to Write Better AI Prompts for Landing Pages

A formula-based approach to prompting AI for landing pages that convert, not just landing pages that look nice.

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How to Use AI to Explore Multiple Visual Directions Fast

A practical workflow for using AI to generate multiple distinct visual directions before committing to one, so you choose between strong alternatives instead of polishing a single idea too early.

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How to Evaluate AI Output Like a Senior Designer

A six-lens rubric for catching polished mediocrity, surface-level UI, and the gap between 'looks good' and 'actually works' in AI-generated design.

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Screenshot to UX Critique

Turn any interface screenshot into actionable UX and UI feedback using a structured critique prompt and a six-lens evaluation framework.

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