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26 fixes that make an AI-built app stop looking AI-made, as one prompt you can paste into Claude: remove the purple gradients, glows and gradient text, swap emoji for one icon set, put spacing on a 4px grid, use one neutral ramp and one accent, drop the badges and hype words, fix the number formats, radii and charts, stop the pulsing, show the real product, and check your accent passes 4.5:1 contrast.
Many of these checks come from the "signs of slop" list in unslop, a free Claude Code skill by Damir Sokolovsky (@heydamir), CC BY 4.0: https://github.com/heydamir/unslop. The 4.5:1 figure is the WCAG 2 AA contrast minimum for normal text. "Ledgerly" is a made-up app.
Not affiliated with Damir Sokolovsky or Anthropic. Type: Geist and Geist Mono (Vercel, SIL OFL), Instrument Serif (SIL OFL). Animated with Remotion.
Music: Cipher by Kevin MacLeod, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cipher_(ISRC_USUAN1100844).mp3)
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Claude! I don't want my vibe-coded app to look AI-made, so please: Remove the purple gradients. Kill every glow and colored shadow. No gradient text in headings. Swap every emoji for one icon set. Put all spacing on a four-pixel grid. Give equal cards equal padding. Build every grey from one neutral ramp. Use one accent color, and use it rarely. Drop the New and Pro badges. Write labels in sentence case, not shouty capitals. Use regular weights, not extra-bold headings. Show every number in one format. No exclamation marks in the interface. Replace Welcome back with the page's real title. Say what each change compares to. Cut hype words like supercharge and seamless. Shorten placeholders, and turn shortcuts into keycaps. Make inner corners fit the outer ones. Don't make everything a pill. Give one chart the spotlight. No rainbow bars: one highlight color per chart. Vary the card widths. Delete the floating blobs and glossy orbs. Stop things pulsing and bouncing. Show the real product, not a stock illustration. And check your accent passes 4.5:1 contrast. Comment DESIGN, and I'll send you the complete design toolkit, with every prompt.