JonathanLiem

I’ve been working on nexai.app and tried leaning on Cursor/Claude/etc. for the front‑end. The code they spit out basically works. The UI they spit out basically sucks.

Patterns I keep seeing: - Everything looks like the same beige SaaS dashboard: rounded cards, random gradient, Tailwind presets copy‑pasted until entropy. - Zero hierarchy. Every section screams at the same volume. Nothing feels like it has a “job” on the page. - Design systems are imaginary. You get a Frankenmix of Apple, Material, shadcn, and Dribbble shots in one component tree. - Micro‑interactions are overdone or completely off: bouncy, noisy, and unrelated to what the user is actually trying to do. - When you try to “refine” the design, the model tends to bulldoze the good parts instead of making small, surgical tweaks.

Built out http://automotion.dev to solve this, it turns screenshots into UI animations instantly. Been a game-changer for me and I'm my own user.

would love any feedback anyone has, I'm thinking of building a direct MCP to Cursor/Claude.

If you willing to hop on a 15 minute call with me, I'll give you free unlimited access.

- A Frustrated Founder.

I’ve been playing with Cursor / Claude / Figma for UI work and I’m starting to think “AI beige slop” is a real aesthetic.

Every time I ask for a layout I get the same thing: full‑bleed gradient, rounded cards, way too many shadows, Tailwind presets everywhere. It’s like the models have memorized 10,000 Dribbble shots and just average them together.

There’s no taste. No hierarchy. No sense of “this is the one important thing on the screen, everything else is supporting copy.” It’s all primary buttons and hero gradients fighting for attention.

Worse, when you do try to steer it – “take this specific layout, don’t change the structure, just nudge the typography/spacing” – it tends to blow everything away and redraw the whole page, but slightly more beige. You end up babysitting it like a junior designer who only knows how to copy Figma community kits.

I still like these tools for wiring logic and cranking out boilerplate React/Tailwind once I already know exactly what I want. But as an actual visual designer? Right now it mostly just makes it faster to ship the same, forgettable SaaS UI everyone else has.

Out of frustration, I created my own tool in 8 hours; automotion.dev and it's honestly been amazing in my workflow. Would love any feedback if any.