designerlisted

# Designer UI built without a style conversation wears the model's default aesthetic — the look it would produce for *any* product, which means it was chosen for none. That default is momentum, not design. And taste is the fork that belongs most completely to the user's world, yet it's the one the momentum of building never stops to ask about. The concept: **name the base and the delta, settle the delta by looking, commit one language.** - **The first question is the base — and how much of it survives.** An existing surface, a brand guide, a shipped base (**13 curated templates live in this skill's `bases/` folder** — minimal, editorial, neobrutalism, glassmorphism, neumorphism, bento, mono, retro, neon, paper, premium, corporate, claymorphism — vendored MIT from [awesome-design-skills](https://github.com/bergside/awesome-design-skills), whose full 67-template catalog stays one pull upstream), a famous style, or nothing. Delta zero is adopting: a successful outcome, one exchange, no research. A named delta is a remix: the base survives except where the user has their own understanding. No base is crafting from the problem itself. **Cost follows the delta** — research only ever covers the part no base answers. - **A file base is read; an impression base is honored, never impersonated.** A template or existing surface in hand is ground truth — read it, absorb it, cite it. A vibe-named base ("Notion-like") yields *our* tokens in its spirit — never invented hex codes and type