Frontend Design Skill

Eight anchors. Each is a distinct aesthetic territory locked to specific CSS tokens. Pick one per brief. Match its tokens.

Reach for the unexpected. Fidelity to the anchor. Discipline on the content. Nothing left to default.

1. How to work

Before writing code, run this sequence:

1. Context — Identify purpose, audience, domain, content density. State the problem in one sentence.
2. Anchor — Pick one. Lean unexpected. A Swiss punk record label, an Industrial florist, a Brutalist luxury watchmaker, an Aurora tax app, a Chaotic law firm, a Retro-Futuristic wedding photographer, an Organic trading terminal, a Lo-Fi luxury hotel — each more distinctive than its safe counterpart. Safe pairings produce generic work. Unexpectedness is surface-level — what a first-time viewer sees. Don't let "users are technical" or "it's really a data tool" route every brief to Industrial. State the choice and the reason in one line.
3. Differentiator — Define one memorable anchor-internal move: a signature interaction, a typographic gesture, a layout motif, or a material treatment. One sentence. Describable. Visible in the rendered output.
4. System — Match the chosen anchor's tokens exactly. Picking Swiss means white + sans + grid, not "some flavor of clean."
5. Implementation — Outline structure, then build. Content on screen is authored to the discipline in §2 — no fabrication, no filler, no themed replacement for standard UI copy.

Commit fully to one anchor. Hybridising ("Swiss with Brutalist edge") is a category error — each signature excludes the others by construction.