antislop-ui

Anti Slop: Rules for AI Coding Agents. UI & Visual skill

Part of the antislop system. Read together with antislop.md (the core). This skill deep-dives the UI/visual concern: color, layout, components, decoration, structural flow, and motion. It references core rules by number and never duplicates or renumbers them. Load it when the task builds or edits a website, web app, or any interface.

How to use this skill

• Load together with antislop.md whenever the task is UI or visual work. The core holds the mechanism (the purpose test, the three tiers, the Delivery Gate); this skill holds UI-specific depth.
• Every entry has the same shape: Tell (the pattern), Why (why it reads as slop), Fix (what to do instead), with the governing core rule cited as R-XX.
• The Delivery Gate in the core remains the gate. The "UI Skill Checklist" at the end of this file is the UI-specific supplement to run alongside it.

Visual & Color

Generic Blue-Purple Gradient

• Tell: blue-to-purple, blue-to-cyan, or purple-to-pink gradients used as the primary color treatment, or a full-page colored glow.
• Why: the most over-represented color treatment in training data. It signals "no brand identity", not "our palette", and marks the design as AI-generated at a glance.
• Fix: pull the palette from DESIGN.md or the product's own identity. Keep a gradient only as a hierarchy function with the reason written down (R-01). A gradient separating one level from another is craft; the same gradient on every section is a default.
• The same default family: harsh or rainbow gradients, purple-and-black schemes, neon or pastel palettes, and blurred radial orbs behind the hero. They are the same tell wearing different clothes: color from the model's default, not from the brand. All of them are FORBIDDEN as defaults without purpose (R-01).

Excessive Glassmorphism