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Use when designing expensive agency-grade interfaces with premium fonts, spatial rhythm, soft depth, and fluid microinteractions.
name: high-end-visual-design description: "Use when designing expensive agency-grade interfaces with premium fonts, spatial rhythm, soft depth, and fluid microinteractions." category: frontend risk: safe source: community source_repo: Leonxlnx/taste-skill source_type: community date_added: "2026-04-17" author: Leonxlnx tags: [frontend, visual-design, motion, ui] tools: [claude, cursor, codex, antigravity]
Agent Skill: Principal UI/UX Architect & Motion Choreographer (Awwwards-Tier)
When to Use
- Use when the user wants a high-end agency, Awwwards-tier, Apple-like, Linear-like, luxury, or polished visual design.
- Use when building a landing page, portfolio, SaaS UI, consumer product page, or app surface that needs premium depth and motion.
- Use when the design must avoid generic fonts, harsh shadows, static layouts, default navbars, and ordinary Bootstrap-style grids.
Limitations
- This skill is visual-design focused; it does not replace brand strategy, conversion research, accessibility validation, or production QA.
- Premium fonts, icon sets, images, and motion libraries must exist in the target project or be added intentionally before generated code is used.
- Avoid applying luxury motion and heavy visual treatments to constrained dashboards, regulated products, or low-performance environments.
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, orPlus Jakarta Sansare 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
linearorease-in-outtransitions. 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)
- 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 heavybackdrop-blur-2xland pure white/10 hairlines. Wide geometric Grotesk typography. - 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. - 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)
- The Asymmetrical Bento: A masonry-like CSS Grid of varying card sizes (e.g.,
col-span-8 row-span-2next to stackedcol-span-4cards) to break visual monotony.- Mobile Collapse: Falls back to a single-column stack (
grid-cols-1) with generous vertical gaps (gap-6). Allcol-spanoverrides reset tocol-span-1.
- Mobile Collapse: Falls back to a single-column stack (
- The Z-Axis Cascade: Elements are stacked like physical cards, slightly overlapping each other with varying depths of field, some with a subtle
-2degor3degrotation 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.
- Mobile Collapse: Remove all rotations and negative-margin overlaps below
- 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 Collapse: Converts to a full-width vertical stack (
Mobile Override (Universal): Any asymmetric layout above md: MUST aggressively fall back to
Compatible Tools
Claude CodeCursor
Tags
Frontend