Second Pass
Getting correct interfaces out of AI tools — for designers working through a model, and for everyone else now shipping UI without one.
Fifty-two units in seven parts, one idea each: a symptom, two versions of the same screen, a short explanation, a prompt, a rule. The contents sit on the left and stay with you while you read.
3 of 52 units published · Chapter 2 writing now · Updated 10 Sep 2026
What’s in here
Lessons
Seven parts, in order. Part 1 is short and everything else assumes it — start there and bring a real screen.
52 units · 3 publishedRules index
Every rule on one page, ready to paste into your own rules file.
1 liveReference
Which component to use, and when.
35 plannedRecipes
Whole patterns — checkout, settings, onboarding.
12 plannedPrompt packs
Every prompt in a part, as one file.
Part 1 readyThe premise
The model fills gaps with the average.
Ask for a dashboard and it invents plausible numbers; ask for a landing page and it invents plausible content. Everything here is about closing those gaps on purpose.
Generated. Outstanding reads 84,200 and the badge says twelve invoices, but three rows are listed and they add up to 28,400. “Paid this month” and “Avg days to pay” came from nowhere at all.
Derived. Outstanding is the sum of the rows — 22,200 — and the count matches them. The two figures nothing supports are empty, not invented, and status comes from the due date.
What a unit looks like
Learn to see the shape without the substance
A generated screen gets the shape right — header, hero, three cards, table, quote. Your eye reads that as competence and stops looking. Go block by block instead and ask what each one claims, and where the claim came from. Ninety seconds to read, two minutes to apply.
Read a generated screen block by block and name the source of every claim before judging how it looks.
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Practical notes
- English only
- The prompts and rules are meant to be pasted verbatim; translating them would break them. The rest of the site is bilingual.
- One course, no tiers
- Lessons, rules, reference and recipes all live here. Read them in any order; nothing is gated behind a sign-up.
- Published as it’s written
- Planned units are marked in the contents and still readable — they carry the claim and the rule. Chapters publish whole.
- Using this with a team
- Share the lessons freely, internally or publicly. Running a session for your team? Ask me.