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Taste Skill

A collection of skills that improve how AI tools write frontend code. Instead of generating generic, boring interfaces, the AI builds modern, premium designs with proper animations, spacing, and visual quality.

Feedback & Contributions

I'd love to hear your thoughts! If you have suggestions or find any bugs:

Skills

There are four skills in this project. Each one lives in its own folder and contains a SKILL.md file.

1. taste-skill (14 sections)

The main design skill. Teaches the AI how to write good-looking frontend code from scratch. Covers layout, typography, colors, spacing, motion, and overall visual quality. Now includes: accessibility (WCAG 2.2 AA), Core Web Vitals performance, responsive images, dark/light mode system, SEO meta architecture, and 4 before/after code examples.

2. redesign-skill

For upgrading existing projects. Instead of rebuilding from zero, this skill walks the AI through auditing what's already there and fixing the biggest design problems first. Now includes: accessibility audit, Core Web Vitals audit, SEO audit, and an expanded 10-step fix priority.

3. soft-skill (11 sections)

Focuses on making things look and feel expensive. Use for luxury, editorial, or Awwwards-tier builds. Covers premium fonts, big breathing whitespace, layered card designs with depth, smooth spring-based animations, and floating navigation. Bans all the generic defaults that make AI output look like a template. Now includes: accessibility, dark/light mode, SEO & performance, and a clear "when to use this vs taste-skill" guide.

4. output-skill

Stops the AI from being lazy. Prevents placeholder comments, skipped code blocks, and half-finished outputs. Forces the AI to actually write everything instead of cutting corners. Now includes: multi-file output handling and iterative request rules.

When to use which skill

Scenario Skill
Building a new SaaS, dashboard, or web app taste-skill
Building a luxury/editorial/agency site (Awwwards-tier) soft-skill
Upgrading an existing project redesign-skill
Any task requiring complete, untruncated output output-skill
Production build taste-skill + output-skill (combine both)

How to Use

  1. Copy the SKILL.md file from the skill folder you need into your project.
  2. Tell your AI to read and follow it. In most editors you can just reference it directly (e.g. @SKILL.md in Cursor).

That's it. The AI reads the file and follows the rules.

Settings (taste-skill only)

The taste skill has three settings at the top of the file. Change these numbers (1-10) depending on what you're building:

DESIGN_VARIANCE — How experimental the layout is.

  • 1-3: Clean, centered, standard grids.
  • 4-7: Overlapping elements, varied sizes.
  • 8-10: Asymmetric, lots of whitespace, very modern.

MOTION_INTENSITY — How much animation there is.

  • 1-3: Almost none. Simple hover effects.
  • 4-7: Fade-ins, smooth scrolling.
  • 8-10: Magnetic effects, spring physics, scroll-triggered animations.

VISUAL_DENSITY — How much content fits on one screen.

  • 1-3: Big and spacious. One element at a time. Luxury feel.
  • 4-7: Normal spacing. Like a typical app or website.
  • 8-10: Dense and compact. Dashboards, data-heavy interfaces.

Examples

Created with taste-skill:

Research

Background research that informed how these skills were built. See the research folder.