AI-Generated Design Anti-Patterns and Detection

AI slop design tells (design anti-patterns):

The obvious ones:

• purple gradients / everything
• over-used fonts like Inter

The not-so-obvious ones:

• japanese-style UX writing (extreme redundancy)
• cardocalypse (everything is a card, nested cards in cards)
• massive rounded lucide icon above headings
• thick colored border rounded cards
• gray on top of colored bg, absolute black/white
• lazy "cool" (glassmorphism, glow, neon/cyan-on-dark, monospace for hacker vibe)
• lazy "impact" (gradients, sparklines, elastic animations)
• layout templates (i.e. hero metric layout = big number, small label, supporting stats, gradient accent)
• junior designer rush jobs ("let's just hide this in a modal")