Vercel Ship
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Articles

Curated outbound links grouped by topic.

Extraction

Taste

The anti-slop field around Hallmark: same diagnosis (models reproduce the statistical centre of their training set), different output shapes.

  • Stop letting your agents ship ugly UIs (talk deck): Hassan El Mghari's 17-slide AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 deck, bundled inside the Hallmark repo. Tool-agnostic: seven fixes, Hallmark itself on one slide.
  • impeccable: Paul Bakaus. 1 skill + 23 commands + 7 domain reference files + an anti-pattern CLI; the most agent-portable skill in the field.
  • taste-skill: 9 specialised variants with 3-dial parameterisation (variance / motion / density): the clearest demo of parameterisation as a skill primitive.
  • kami: tw93's constraint-based document-layout sibling: 10 templates, one serif per language, "constraints over instructions."
  • frontend-design (Anthropic): ships in default Claude Code. Shows that Anthropic itself ships taste rules as a skill.
  • Which AI Made This?: live comparison gallery from Dara A. (@daradoescode). The same note-app landing-page brief is run across models (Fable, Opus, GPT, Gemini, Composer, and others), grouped by skill condition: with Anthropic's frontend-design skill, with taste/UI skills, and without. Each model has five numbered iterations, so you can judge AI-assisted design quality side by side, not just read about it.
  • Prompting for frontend aesthetics (Claude cookbook): from October 2025. An early version of what later became skills.

Cultivation

The case studies for this frame (Vercel's product-copywriting skill, the Vercel DS skill cluster, the eval harness coupled to a skill) live in internal Vercel repos and are cited live in the workshop. No public write-up yet.

Vocabulary

  • Animation Vocabulary: Emil Kowalski's motion glossary, ~90 named patterns published as "names to describe what you want when prompting an AI."

Field context

Standards & specs

Catalogs & discovery

  • The Component Gallery: Design Systems: curated filterable index of public DSs.
  • AWESOMEDESIGN: design-system inspirations from popular websites.
  • ethos-design-system: specific public DS, useful as a "could-be-a-skill-but-isn't-yet" exhibit.
  • UI Skills: curated skill directory for design engineers: accessibility, motion, frontend craft, with copy-ready install commands.
  • Higgsfield Skills: image/video generation models packaged as installable agent skills; skills as a vendor distribution channel.
  • Mobbin MCP: real-app screenshot library exposed over MCP. Evaluated for the workshop's design-craft reference and rejected: tool-dependent workflows don't belong in a static file.

Companion methodology