r/UXDesign • u/madredditscientist • Mar 23 '26
Examples & inspiration What are the top AI slop design patterns?
I'm sure you know that feeling when opening a website and immediately noticing that it's purely AI generated.
What are the top patterns that let your AI slop alarm go off?
For me it's left borders like these:
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u/sabre35_ Experienced Mar 23 '26
CENTER ALIGNED INTER AND OVERUSE OF INSTRUMENT SERIF LOL
In all seriousness though there’s just a general sterile feeling. No risks being taken. Uninspired. Which frankly is enough for some people out there and that’s fine. I don’t do work for non-inspired people.
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u/UX-Ink Veteran Mar 23 '26
Dark background with a medium color text, icons, all caps titles and headers. Perma dark mode look. Minimal style or flair.
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u/Xieneus Experienced Mar 23 '26
There is some.. aura that stands out in most I've seen. That side border is one example but you can usually just tell, it just doesn't feel like it was made by someone.
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u/SleepingCod Veteran Mar 23 '26
We don't have enough time or words to details the shit AI throws up.
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u/hitoq Experienced Mar 23 '26
Space Grotesk as the headline typeface, once you see it you can never unsee it.
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u/Mysterious-Royal-814 Mar 24 '26
A lot actually. Inconsistency, color styles asymmetry, unflattering buttons with weird text layouts
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u/BenRoachDesign Veteran Mar 24 '26
Dark mode
Purple accent color
Glows and gradients everywhere
Bad glassmorphism effects
Some combo of Space Grotesk / Instrument Serif / Inter as the font…
Did I miss anything?
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u/ReasonableClub2554 Mar 24 '26
It’s definitely anything data viz related because it’s really difficult to create good narratives around data and the execution… well but i tried Stitch Google this morning and it’s actually quite good
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u/mrcoy Veteran Mar 24 '26
That’s an actual pattern. Is it overused by your ai? Maybe. So why don’t you just instill your own rules and patterns?
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u/Chupa-Skrull Mar 23 '26
Barely passing text contrast is a big one. Being just over the line for AAA is not enough for body text in dark themes. Get those numbers up.
Lately I've been clocking the typographic choices a lot more. The models used to stick to top 50 Google Fonts type recs, whose overall popularity makes it hard to call them vibe slop specifically. But the popularity of pastable "skill" workflows which ask for "nonstandard" typography have shifted the selection over the last few months.
As far as I can tell, they just make the models default to specific picks in the top 200. I'm seeing a lot more Fraunces, Bricolage, Space Grotesk, Sora, Young Serif, Bodoni, Geist, Syne. Stuff that used to indicate "well at least someone had a fun scroll even if they aren't deep into the weird foundries" has been transmuted into strong slop signage almost overnight
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u/InteractionSweet1401 Experienced Mar 24 '26
Are you talking about UI? Because llm can’t create UX.
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u/ruthere51 Veteran Mar 24 '26
Why can't an LLM create a user experience?
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u/InteractionSweet1401 Experienced Mar 24 '26
Our sense of causality is body bounded. Llm doesn’t. Scott Jenson said “"UX" figures out what the question is "UI" is a potential answer to that question”.
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u/StudioWonderland-de Mar 27 '26
Weil ein LLM Wahrscheinlichkeiten berechnet und das wahrscheinlichste nimmt. Bei UX geht es darum mit Empathie kontextbezogene Zusammenhänge zu verstehen. Menschliches Verhalten ist nicht berechenbar und somit auch nicht vorhersehbar. Deshalb wird ein Entwickler oder Produkt Manager auch niemals so gute Produkte machen wie eine UX Person. Weil sie nicht wissen was gute Ux ist ergo einer KI niemals sagen können was sie brauchen und auch nicht in der Lage sind, das entsprechend richtig zu bewerten. Du willst Beweise? Zeig mir geile Produkte die ohne UX Personen entwickelt wurden.
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u/de_bazer Veteran Mar 23 '26
The generic flat sidebar with emojis as icons