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Re: Impeccable Style

#31
Putting aside the execution:

It's interesting to see people creating and 'selling' agent skills. This one asks for donations, but I was expecting to see a stripe link and 'download for 4 dollars, yours forever' (personally I think that would convert better...)

I wonder if there will be full-blown skill marketplaces soon. Would that be a way for some experts to recoup some (presumably very small portion) of the income they might lose due to generative AI market effects?

Re: Impeccable Style

#32
The "Before" examples look infinitely better than the "After" examples. Tells you all you need to know. Wouldn't be at all surprised if this whole thing was a ridiculous joke or a satirical commentary on pretentious design.

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#33

"Great design prompts require design vocabulary. Most people don't have it." Vocabulary is just the surface. Beneath it is an understanding of how to achieve your goals with design. How to make things that are easy to use, accessible, that create a certain impression. Does this website (presumably made with the help of these AI tools) show this kind of understanding of design? Not really. It's chaotic, the text is of…

Or, said another way, vocabulary provides us with the words (semantics). You also need a grammar (syntax), which itself needs to be ordered toward an end (pragmatics).

This isn't really what I said, and is considerably less clear. What I meant is that you can't boil design down to certain stylistic flourishes and words denoting them (e.g. "vertical rhythm", to take an example from the linked page). Whatever you're doing, it involves understanding how the viewer will react to what you will show them and why.

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"Great design prompts require design vocabulary. Most people don't have it." Vocabulary is just the surface. Beneath it is an understanding of how to achieve your goals with design. How to make things that are easy to use, accessible, that create a certain impression. Does this website (presumably made with the help of these AI tools) show this kind of understanding of design? Not really. It's chaotic, the text is of…

> Vocabulary is just the surface. Yes, but with LLMs, sometimes simply mentioning the right words is enough to prime the model in the direction you want to take it. If you start a prompt talking about leading and type pairings, it will take greater care with typography. You don't need to be an expert typographer to take advantage of this phenomenon.

How will an LLM "take greater care with typography" if it can't see the page it is creating? How will it "improve" leading if you need a human to see that there's too much distance between lines or too little?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Vocabulary is just the surface. Yes, but with LLMs, sometimes simply mentioning the right words is enough to prime the model in the direction you want to take it. If you start a prompt talking about leading and type pairings, it will take greater care with typography. You don't need to be an expert typographer to take advantage of this phenomenon.

How will an LLM "take greater care with typography" if it can't see the page it is creating? How will it "improve" leading if you need a human to see that there's too much distance between lines or too little?

With playwright, it can see what it is creating. Unsurprisingly, it works much better if you hook it up to a browser.
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