Stop looking like every other amateur SaaS.

Why it looks generated. It is the Tailwind demo wash. Nobody picked it for Harbor; the model reached for the sample palette and called it done.

What to do instead. One brand color, flat. Keep gradients for progress or depth, not as a default “premium” coat of paint.

Why it looks generated. Harder to read, and every Cursor landing page does it. The words lose; the rainbow does the talking.

What to do instead. Solid ink on the title. Loud size and weight beat a fade that fights the contrast.

Why it looks generated. Prompt said warm and friendly. Model opened the caramel jar. Now every “human” AI app shares the same beige.

What to do instead. Write warmer copy. Keep the UI mostly neutral, with one warm accent only if the brand needs it.

Why it looks generated. Bootstrap leftovers on every row. Five loud hues, zero brand, and the eye has nowhere to land.

What to do instead. Status as plain text next to the PO. Bold the line that failed. No pill costume for “queued.”

Why it looks generated. The dark-mode “make it fancy” move. Adds zero information; just fog behind surfaces that did not need drama.

What to do instead. One flat background. Thin border or a small shadow if a card needs to sit above the page.

Why it looks generated. Looks clever for five seconds, then like two people arguing in one line. The mix reads accidental.

What to do instead. Same family the whole way. Stress a word with bold or break the line, not a second typeface.

Why it looks generated. Model thinks serif equals expensive. On a dock board it reads like a wedding invite taped to a forklift.

What to do instead. A readable sans you actually chose. Save serif for long prose if you ever need it.

Why it looks generated. The sentence was weak, so the model doodled on it. Strike and highlight pretend the line already had a point.

What to do instead. Rewrite the sentence until it stands alone. Strike is for deletes; underline is for links.

Why it looks generated. Adds nothing. Just the template breathing above a heading that already said the same word.

What to do instead. Kill it. Keep a kicker only when it adds a date, a category, or a real step number.

Why it looks generated. Display size is for a few words. A full pitch that big is hard to read and looks unsure of the point.

What to do instead. Three big words on the line. Put the rest in a normal subline people can actually scan.

Why it looks generated. If everything is bold, nothing is. The model highlighted words because it could not pick a point.

What to do instead. Zero or one bold hit per paragraph. Usually zero; let the sentence carry the stress.

Why it looks generated. Smooth and empty. I have deleted this paragraph a hundred times on client sites that needed a real claim.

What to do instead. Say what it does, with a number if you have one. Talk like you would to a sharp peer.

Why it looks generated. Borrowed friendliness. A dock tool does not need to wink; the icons are filler where a verb should be.

What to do instead. Drop them. Keep an emoji only when it is a real status people already understand (rare).

Why it looks generated. On or off is a tiny fact. The pulse and halo are costume jewelry around a one-word state.

What to do instead. Flat dot and a word. No pulse. Skip the dot entirely if nothing is actually live.

Why it looks generated. Docs callouts pasted onto a marketing list. When every row shouts important, none of them are.

What to do instead. A normal list. Save a callout box for one real aside, not every bullet on the page.

Why it looks generated. Looks designed in a thumbnail. The icons rarely match the words and eat space the copy needed.

What to do instead. Title and one sentence. Add an icon only when it carries meaning you would miss without it.

Why it looks generated. Believable enough to ship, still a template: blur, glow, and a pill CTA instead of a surface you chose.

What to do instead. Opaque card, thin border, square-ish button. Price and features do the selling, not the frost.

Why it looks generated. Looks floaty and maps to no real height. Everything sits in the same soft cloud above the page.

What to do instead. Use a 1px border or a tight shadow. Never larger than the thing casting it.

Why it looks generated. Inner radius should be outer minus the gap. Same token on both and the corner looks swollen or pinched.

What to do instead. Subtract once: inner = outer − gap. Or leave the inner surface square and stop nesting curves.

Why it looks generated. Each line of code looks fine. The corner is broken anyway. Models do not look at the join.

What to do instead. Put border and radius on the same element so the stroke follows the curve cleanly.

Why it looks generated. Fake buzz. After three pills I stop believing any of them, including the one that might be real.

What to do instead. Badge a real version or stock state. Marketing copy does not need a pill next to the title.

Why it looks generated. Placeholder that never got replaced. First screen and you already look unfinished to a buyer.

What to do instead. A real mark. Refine a generated one until it is sharp, or ship a lettermark before a blob.

Why it looks generated. The card is not growing. You already know the cursor is there. Scale makes the UI feel like a toy.

What to do instead. Change background or border in about 150ms. Leave the size alone so the layout stays still.

Why it looks generated. Layout for social proof with no measurement behind it. One soft lie poisons the real numbers later.

What to do instead. One figure you can defend, or skip the row and say what actually shipped last quarter.

Why it looks generated. Numbers claim an order. Collaborate, Innovate, Scale has none; the digits are decoration.

What to do instead. Number install steps. For features, use headings and space instead of fake sequence.

Why it looks generated. Boxing is the only grouping move the model trusts. Nested boxes cancel out and waste width.

What to do instead. One surface. Space and a hairline divider inside. Extra box only for a real embed.

Why it looks generated. Spacing is how you show what belongs together. One value erases that and the page goes flat.

What to do instead. Tighten related lines. Open a bigger gap between groups so the clusters read as clusters.