Taste Skill Frontend Design

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name: taste-skill-frontend-design
description: Gives AI coding agents premium frontend design taste — stops generic, boring, template-looking UI by enforcing modern layouts, typography, motion, and visual quality.
triggers:
  - make my UI look better
  - improve the design of my frontend
  - stop generating generic looking interfaces
  - give my app premium design quality
  - redesign this component with good taste
  - make this look modern and polished
  - apply good design principles to my code
  - fix the boring slop UI my AI keeps generating
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# Taste Skill

> Skill by [ara.so](https://ara.so) — Daily 2026 Skills collection.

A collection of `SKILL.md` files you drop into your project to give AI coding agents (Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, etc.) strong frontend design taste. Instead of producing generic, template-looking UI, the AI will produce modern, premium interfaces with proper typography, spacing, motion, and visual hierarchy.

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## What It Does

Taste Skill is not a library or framework — it's a set of instruction files your AI reads and follows. Each skill file teaches the AI a specific design philosophy:

| Skill | Purpose |
|---|---|
| `taste-skill` | Core design skill: layout, typography, color, spacing, motion |
| `redesign-skill` | Audits and upgrades existing projects |
| `soft-skill` | Premium/luxury feel: fonts, whitespace, spring animations, depth |
| `output-skill` | Prevents lazy output: no placeholders, no skipped blocks |
| `minimalist-skill` | Notion/Linear-style editorial UI: monochrome, serif contrast, bento grids |

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## Installation

### Step 1: Copy the skill file into your project

```bash
# Clone the repo
git clone https://github.com/Leonxlnx/taste-skill.git

# Copy the skill you want into your project root
cp taste-skill/SKILL.md ./SKILL.md

# Or for a specific skill
cp taste-skill/redesign-skill/SKILL.md ./SKILL.md
cp taste-skill/soft-skill/SKILL.md ./SKILL.md
cp taste-skill/minimalist-skill/SKILL.md ./SKILL.md
cp taste-skill/output-skill/SKILL.md ./SKILL.md

You can also copy multiple skills and reference them by name:

project/
├── SKILL.md              ← main taste-skill
├── REDESIGN_SKILL.md     ← redesign-skill
├── OUTPUT_SKILL.md       ← output-skill
└── src/

Step 2: Reference the skill in your AI tool

Cursor:

@SKILL.md redesign this hero section

Claude Code:

Read SKILL.md and follow it. Now redesign the landing page hero.

Codex / any agent:

Follow the rules in SKILL.md. Rewrite src/components/Hero.tsx.

That's it. No installs, no config files, no dependencies.

Configuration (taste-skill only)

Open SKILL.md and edit the three settings at the top of the file:

DESIGN_VARIANCE: 7
MOTION_INTENSITY: 5
VISUAL_DENSITY: 3

DESIGN_VARIANCE (1–10)

Controls how experimental and asymmetric the layout is.