Guides

Make your AI-built app look designed.

Specific, copy-paste advice for Lovable, Bolt, v0 and Cursor builds. Fonts, colours, layouts, prompts and rules files, with the reasoning behind each.

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How to make a Lovable app look professional (without hiring a designer)

A practical, prompt-by-prompt way to take a Lovable app from "obviously generated" to "someone designed this": tokens, type, layout, copy and the badge.

Lovable
02

Score your site before and after running the unslop skill

The unslop Claude skill rewrites AI-looking UI. Get a free Slop Score before you run it, re-scan after, and see exactly which AI design tells are left.

unslop skill
03

Why AI-built apps all look the same (the 13 tells, explained)

The specific visual patterns that make Lovable, Bolt, v0 and Cursor sites look generated, where each comes from, and what to do instead.

The tells
04

AI website design tells: a 13-point checklist (with how to check each one)

A printable checklist of the 13 visual tells that make a site look AI-generated, the point weight of each, and a 30-second way to check it yourself in DevTools.

Checklist
05

How to make a Lovable app not look AI-generated (a tell-by-tell audit)

Why Lovable apps get spotted as AI-built, the exact tells our scanner checks for, and the prompts to remove each one without breaking your app.

Lovable
06

Why does my v0 or Bolt site look generic? (and how to fix it)

v0 and Bolt sites look alike because they share defaults: shadcn/ui, Tailwind colours, Inter and Lucide. Which ones give you away, and what to change.

v0 & Bolt
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Bolt app design tips: 9 changes that make a bolt.new site look designed

Specific prompts and settings to take a Bolt app past the template look, from tokens and fonts to layout, icons, copy and publishing.

Bolt
08

v0 design system prompts that stop the shadcn default look

Copy-paste v0 prompts to set up a real design system (tokens, type, radius, components) so your v0 projects stop looking like every other shadcn/ui site.

v0
09

Best fonts for vibe-coded apps (12 free pairings that aren't Inter)

Free Google Fonts pairings that make Lovable, Bolt, v0 and Cursor apps look designed, with what each suits and the exact prompt to install them.

Typography
10

Color palettes that don't look AI-generated (with hex codes)

Eight ready-to-use five-color palettes for SaaS and indie apps, why indigo and slate read as default, and how to apply custom tokens in Tailwind.

Color
11

Cursor rules for UI design: a .cursor/rules file that stops generic UI

A complete, copy-paste Cursor project rule (and CLAUDE.md equivalent) that keeps AI-written UI on your design system instead of drifting back to Tailwind defaults.

Cursor
12

Pre-launch design checklist for AI-built apps (30 checks)

A practical design QA checklist to run before you launch a Lovable, Bolt, v0 or Cursor-built app: tells, type, color, layout, mobile, meta tags and trust details.

Checklist
13

How to restyle shadcn/ui so it doesn't look like every other site

The exact shadcn/ui variables, component files and Tailwind settings to change so your Lovable, v0 or Cursor app stops looking like the default shadcn theme.

shadcn/ui
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Landing page copy that doesn't sound AI-written (and the words to cut)

The phrases that make AI-built landing pages sound generated, a simple formula for headlines and subheads, and before/after rewrites you can copy.

Copy

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