I built a UX co-pilot for Claude Code — 376 rules, live preview, zero AI slop
The problem Every time I asked an AI to design a UI, I got the same output: Inter font Purple gradient on white background Centered hero with a subtitle and a button "Here's V1, V2, and V3" It look...

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The problem Every time I asked an AI to design a UI, I got the same output: Inter font Purple gradient on white background Centered hero with a subtitle and a button "Here's V1, V2, and V3" It looked... fine. But it looked like everything else. No personality, no UX thinking, no understanding of what the product actually needed. ## The idea What if the AI could ask questions first before generating anything? What if it understood that a fintech dashboard needs different UX rules than a restaurant landing page? That a dev tool should use monospace fonts and dark mode, not pastel gradients? That's what I built. ## Meet ux-pilot ux-pilot is a free, open-source plugin for Claude Code that acts as a senior UX designer inside your terminal. Instead of generating code directly, it runs a structured discovery flow — asks about your product, users, business model, and design preferences — then applies the right rules from a library of 376 UX rules. ### The 4 phases 1. Discovery The plugin asks