AI-Generated Design Anti-Patterns and Detection

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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")