> I’ve been playing with Cursor / Claude / Figma for UI work and I’m starting to think “AI beige slop” is a real aesthetic.
> Every time I ask for a layout I get the same thing: full‑bleed gradient, rounded cards, way too many shadows, Tailwind presets everywhere. It’s like the models have memorized 10,000 Dribbble shots and just average them together.
> There’s no taste. No hierarchy. No sense of “this is the one important thing on the screen, everything else is supporting copy.” It’s all primary buttons and hero gradients fighting for attention.
> Worse, when you do try to steer it – “take this specific layout, don’t change the structure, just nudge the typography/spacing” – it tends to blow everything away and redraw the whole page, but slightly more beige. You end up babysitting it like a junior designer who only knows how to copy Figma community kits.
> I still like these tools for wiring logic and cranking out boilerplate React/Tailwind once I already know exactly what I want. But as an actual visual designer? Right now it mostly just makes it faster to ship the same, forgettable SaaS UI everyone else has.
Out of frustration, I created my own tool in 8 hours; automotion.dev and it's honestly been amazing in my workflow. Would love any feedback if any.
