taste

name	taste
description	Apply restrained design taste to a UI. Use when the user wants the interface to feel tasteful, elegant, minimal, or "not overdesigned" — favors simplicity, whitespace, a tight palette, subtle motion, and removing decoration that doesn't earn its place.

Taste

Good taste is mostly subtraction. This pass makes a UI feel calm, confident, and intentional.

When to use

Invoke when the user wants the design to feel tasteful, elegant, refined, or less cluttered.

Heuristics

1. Remove before you add. If an element doesn't serve the user, cut it. Borders, shadows, gradients, and icons must each earn their place.

2. One accent, lots of neutral. A single confident brand color against a well-considered neutral scale beats a rainbow. Use accent sparingly for emphasis and interaction.

3. Whitespace is a feature. Let content breathe. Crowded ≠ rich.

4. Type does the heavy lifting. A clear type scale and good line-height create hierarchy without decoration. Limit to 1–2 families.

5. Subtle motion. Prefer 150–250ms eases and small movements. If an animation calls attention to itself, it's probably too much.

6. Consistency reads as quality. Same radius, same spacing units, same button shapes everywhere. Inconsistency looks like a bug.

7. Restraint with effects. Glass, glow, blur, parallax — at most one "wow" moment per view, supporting the content, never competing with it.

Anti-patterns to fix

• Multiple competing accent colors.
• Drop shadows on everything.
• Gradients used as flat fills.
• Bold + italic + underline + color all at once.
• Animations on load that delay the user seeing content.

Output

Note what you removed/simplified and why — taste is visible in the cuts.