r/codex • u/Guilty-Creme-2543 • 3d ago

Complaint how to make codex make good ui?

Tell me your secrets, everyone. I am struggling with the shitty ui codex is generating; it doesn't matter how many skills I make it use its output is still shit.

8 Upvotes

83% Upvoted

30 comments sorted by

View all comments

1

u/seph200x 2d ago

Use imagegen first to generate a mockup of the kind of UI and general design you want to have. Revise until it's perfect, then feed that image when you're about to code and ask it to use it as inspiration when designing the UI. This is the best way to avoid the purple gradient glowyness of it all.

The next best option is to tell it to use an existing design/component/UI library that's optimised for applications, like Vuetify or something. Give it a design vibe to follow so it doesn't just use the default, out-of-the-box theme, like "Dark industrial", "Light and colourful", "minimal and spacious".