A design laboratory by Ayush Upneja
Tools and notes for fighting AI-slop UI.
Every AI-built website looks the same: Inter font, bg-indigo-500, rounded cards, centered hero with one CTA. This is a small public archive of skills, prompts, and patterns I'm building to make that not true for projects I ship.
01 · Featured
May 2026
/reskin →
A Claude Code skill that takes any Next.js project and generates ten wildly different visual reskins as interactive HTML mockups — each committed to a specific design archetype (Bloomberg Brutalist, CRT Terminal, Risograph Zine, ...) and optimized to look distinctive in a 2-second Instagram reel cut.
Built in one session: research → spec → plan → execute. 28 archetypes, 48 forbidden patterns, one constitutional rule. Open source.
Coming
Voice & Tone prompts
Reusable system prompts for personality-first copy.
Anti-templates
A growing collection of layouts that aren't the SaaS default.
Reel post-production kit
Edit + caption + thumbnail toolkit for AI-content reels.