Guide

Refactoring UI

Adam Wathan and Steve Schoger · refactoringui.com

The classic book that teaches non-designers exactly the judgment calls AI keeps fumbling.

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The question it answers

  1. How do I stop my AI-generated UI from looking generic?

Read with it

  1. The clearest diagnosis of why models regress to the mean, with five concrete fixes. superdesign.dev Article How to make AI UI look less generic: 5 fixes Superdesign
  2. Names the exact tells (Tailwind blue, card-in-card, bounce animations) so you can hunt them down. smoothui.dev Article AI design slop: why AI-generated UI looks generic, and the fix SmoothUI
  3. A checklist with visual examples you can run against your own screens. gendesigns.ai Article Why your AI-generated UI looks bad: 15 mistakes and how to fix every one GenDesigns
  4. An honest first-person build log of going from slop to shippable. alexlavaee.me Article Why my AI-generated UI looked generic (and how I fixed it) Alex Lavaee
  5. A working designer's step-separated workflow: direction in text first, code second. pub.towardsai.net Article How I design UI with help of AI tools, without ending up with slop Nishkarsh Gupta
  6. Video Your AI UI looks generic… this fixes it (DESIGN.md) YouTube educator
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