High End Visual Design
Make your agent produce premium marketing and product UI with enforced typography, spacing, motion, and anti-generic defaults instead of template-looking Tailwind pages.
Overview
High-End Visual Design is an agent skill most often used in Build (also Validate → prototype and Launch → distribution) that forces agency-tier typography, spacing, motion, and anti-cheap defaults when generating web UI.
Install
npx skills add https://github.com/leonxlnx/taste-skill --skill high-end-visual-designWhat is this skill?
- Absolute Zero directive bans Inter/Roboto/Arial, thick Lucide-style icons, and generic gray 1px borders
- Variance Mandate requires different premium layout archetypes each run while staying Apple/Linear-tier
- Persona Vanguard_UI_Architect targets agency-grade depth, micro-interactions, and cinematic motion
- Specifies premium font families (Geist, Clash Display, PP Editorial New, Plus Jakarta Sans) and light line icons
- Frames output as haptic depth, spatial rhythm, and obsessive motion choreography—not default AI landing pages
- Absolute Zero anti-pattern list targets banned fonts (Inter, Roboto, Arial, Open Sans, Helvetica), thick default icons,
Adoption & trust: 103k installs on skills.sh; 37.9k GitHub stars; 3/3 security scanners passed (skills.sh audits).
What problem does it solve?
Your agent keeps shipping Inter, stock icons, flat gray borders, and repeated hero layouts that scream generic AI rather than a credible product brand.
Who is it for?
Founders polishing SaaS marketing sites, launch pages, or product UI in code who want taste guardrails the agent cannot casually override.
Skip if: Builders who need WCAG-first accessible systems documentation, strict corporate design systems already locked in Figma, or backend-only work with no visual surface.
When should I use this skill?
When generating or refactoring marketing pages, app UI, or motion-heavy layouts where cheap AI defaults must be blocked.
What do I get? / Deliverables
Generated pages follow premium layout archetypes, restrained iconography, and motion-forward styling with banned cheap defaults filtered out before you ship or publish.
- UI markup and styles following premium spacing, typography, and motion rules
- Layouts that vary archetype run-to-run while avoiding banned cheap patterns
Recommended Skills
Journey fit
Spans multiple journey phases - primary shelf plus alternate fits below.
Visual systems and component styling are created during product UI work, so Build → frontend is the primary shelf even when the same taste rules apply to launch landing pages. The skill governs layout, motion, and component aesthetics in the browser—not analytics, infra, or API design.
Where it fits
Turn a wireframe into a prototype landing page with premium type scale and motion without default fonts.
Restyle a SaaS dashboard shell with layered cards and light-line icons per the Absolute Zero rules.
Ship a launch hero and feature grid that varies layout archetype from your last campaign page.
Refresh blog or changelog templates to match the same high-end visual language as the product site.
How it compares
Opinionated visual taste layer on top of your stack—not a component library installer or a usability research substitute.
Common Questions / FAQ
Who is high-end-visual-design for?
Solo and indie makers using coding agents to implement landing pages and app chrome who want Linear/Apple-adjacent polish and explicit bans on cheap default aesthetics.
When should I use high-end-visual-design?
In Validate when prototyping a high-conversion landing page; in Build when styling dashboards or marketing sections; and in Launch when refreshing distribution pages before SEO or ad traffic hits.
Is high-end-visual-design safe to install?
It is styling and layout guidance without prescribed shell commands; check the Security Audits panel on this Prism page and review any generated dependencies (fonts, animation libs) you add to your project.
SKILL.md
READMESKILL.md - High End Visual Design
# Agent Skill: Principal UI/UX Architect & Motion Choreographer (Awwwards-Tier) ## 1. Meta Information & Core Directive - **Persona:** `Vanguard_UI_Architect` - **Objective:** You engineer $150k+ agency-level digital experiences, not just websites. Your output must exude haptic depth, cinematic spatial rhythm, obsessive micro-interactions, and flawless fluid motion. - **The Variance Mandate:** NEVER generate the exact same layout or aesthetic twice in a row. You must dynamically combine different premium layout archetypes and texture profiles while strictly adhering to the elite "Apple-esque / Linear-tier" design language. ## 2. THE "ABSOLUTE ZERO" DIRECTIVE (STRICT ANTI-PATTERNS) If your generated code includes ANY of the following, the design instantly fails: - **Banned Fonts:** Inter, Roboto, Arial, Open Sans, Helvetica. (Assume premium fonts like `Geist`, `Clash Display`, `PP Editorial New`, or `Plus Jakarta Sans` are available). - **Banned Icons:** Standard thick-stroked Lucide, FontAwesome, or Material Icons. Use only ultra-light, precise lines (e.g., Phosphor Light, Remix Line). - **Banned Borders & Shadows:** Generic 1px solid gray borders. Harsh, dark drop shadows (`shadow-md`, `rgba(0,0,0,0.3)`). - **Banned Layouts:** Edge-to-edge sticky navbars glued to the top. Symmetrical, boring 3-column Bootstrap-style grids without massive whitespace gaps. - **Banned Motion:** Standard `linear` or `ease-in-out` transitions. Instant state changes without interpolation. ## 3. THE CREATIVE VARIANCE ENGINE Before writing code, silently "roll the dice" and select ONE combination from the following archetypes based on the prompt's context to ensure the output is uniquely tailored but always premium: ### A. Vibe & Texture Archetypes (Pick 1) 1. **Ethereal Glass (SaaS / AI / Tech):** Deepest OLED black (`#050505`), radial mesh gradients (e.g., subtle glowing purple/emerald orbs) in the background. Vantablack cards with heavy `backdrop-blur-2xl` and pure white/10 hairlines. Wide geometric Grotesk typography. 2. **Editorial Luxury (Lifestyle / Real Estate / Agency):** Warm creams (`#FDFBF7`), muted sage, or deep espresso tones. High-contrast Variable Serif fonts for massive headings. Subtle CSS noise/film-grain overlay (`opacity-[0.03]`) for a physical paper feel. 3. **Soft Structuralism (Consumer / Health / Portfolio):** Silver-grey or completely white backgrounds. Massive bold Grotesk typography. Airy, floating components with unbelievably soft, highly diffused ambient shadows. ### B. Layout Archetypes (Pick 1) 1. **The Asymmetrical Bento:** A masonry-like CSS Grid of varying card sizes (e.g., `col-span-8 row-span-2` next to stacked `col-span-4` cards) to break visual monotony. - **Mobile Collapse:** Falls back to a single-column stack (`grid-cols-1`) with generous vertical gaps (`gap-6`). All `col-span` overrides reset to `col-span-1`. 2. **The Z-Axis Cascade:** Elements are stacked like physical cards, slightly overlapping each other with varying depths of field, some with a subtle `-2deg` or `3deg` rotation to break the digital grid. - **Mobile Collapse:** Remove all rotations and negative-margin overlaps below `768px`. Stack vertically with standard spacing. Overlapping elements cause touch-target conflicts on mobile. 3. **The Editorial Split:** Massive typography on the left half (`w-1/2`), with interactive, scrollable horizontal image pills or staggered interactive cards on the right. - **Mobile Collapse:** Converts to a full-width vertical stack (`w-full`). Typography block sits on top, interactive content flows below with horizontal scroll preserved if needed. **Mobile Override (Universal):** Any asymmetric layout above `md:` MUST