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Do you ever feel like the hardest part of building a product isn't the code, it's just making the product look good? Especially if you're a solo founder or a vibe coder with no design background and zero budget. Everything Claude generates ends up looking the same. You get this like, inter font, purple gradient, white background thing. So Mike Krieger, Anthropic's head of product and co-founder of Instagram. He calls this distributional convergence. It's where AI. Picks the safest, most generic design choices because they dominate the training data. I'm Pete. I run a software development agency in New York City, and we bring products to market for startups and Fortune 500 companies. From experience, I could tell you that the goal when you release a product should not be an award winning design. It's really not a requirement, unless if you're a design firm or design adjacent. What you need is a design that doesn't get in the way of solving the user's problem. Here's how to fix this in 30 seconds with Claude Code's Frontend design plugin. Open your terminal and run these two commands. Then start your prompt with use the front end design skill. That's it. The plugin will steer Claude across four axes: topography, color, motion, and backgrounds. So instead of safe defaults, you get cohesive aesthetics, distinctive fonts, purposeful animation and depth. So look at the difference from these few screenshots. Like default Claude, generic dashboard. With the skill you Get bold typography and a cohesive dark theme. Same prompt, completely different output. Slightly elevated and differentiated. Obviously this won't make you a designer, but it will close the gap between this looks like a template. And okay, Someone actually thought about this. And quick caveat this is not the same process as implementing an ambitious Figma design. That's a whole other workflow that I'm outlining on my Substack this weekend. There's a link in my bio.