I love how you can have an idea and often make it real in short order. I have been exploring how to make sure that when I design my frontend I get as much variety as possible as, after all, it’s all about taste!
When seeing folks prompt for app UI, 99% of the time I see them ignoring prompting for the style they want. They rush to say what they want the app to do, which is obviously important, but giving the models more information on the style can bring you gold.
I have been collecting styles, and making it easy to pick one to explore… where the tool will fill out the right information to pass in to the models.
I wrapped this in a simple CLI, stitch-prompt, which simply takes:
- A simple spec that has info on what you are building
- A style to try, from a curated list
- An optional prompt that packages it all together
I have noticed that once I get into the habit… I start to ask for a variety of styles and look at them to get a feel for what I fancy with the particular app. Sometimes my mood and the app itself has me in a minimalistic style, at other times I go for more “fun”. With the flick of a --all you get prompts for all styles to grab. It’s been delightful to put these into Stitch and see what comes out the other side:
It’s been delightful to take a series of Stitch screens and put them side by side with different styles:
And, since these are just prompts, you can fire them up with any LLM that can speak image and put them together:
We are in a world where generation is cheap, so make sure to use that fact and do a lot more curation!
We are embracing this in Stitch and hope you give it a try! We have a lot coming.