Web Design Skill

The Design Eye (taste profile this skill encodes)

This is not about techniques. This is about the underlying standard behind every prompt this skill serves. Internalize this before touching any code.

The Core Demand: Things Must Feel Real

The most consistent instinct in this taste profile is physics. When the user says something is "off," it's almost always because an element feels pasted on, floating, or disconnected from its environment. When something works, it gets described in physical terms:

"looks like there's actual physics going on" "protrudes in a way that feels connected to the background" "punched into the background using shadows" "mesh these images with the website" "porting from the background elegantly"

What this means in practice: Every element needs a relationship to what's around it. An image card doesn't sit on a background — it emerges from it. A shadow isn't decoration — it's the element belonging to a surface. If you can look at something and think "that was placed there," it's wrong. If it looks like it grew there, it's right.