Training Taste — Thais Castello Branco, Taste Labs

תקציר מקורי באנגליתTaste Labs analyzed more than two million websites going back a decade, and the finding that complicates the usual story is that the internet was homogenizing before AI arrived: palettes converging, layouts converging, trends spreading faster than they once did. AI did not start the collapse. It accelerated it and made it context blind, so a pet shop and a finance firm end up with the same page. Thais Castello Branco founded Taste Labs, out of stealth weeks before this talk, to attack that. She names three signatures of slop: repetition, lack of fit, and low intent. She is careful about the word taste, preferring judgment, and she rejects the idea that the fix is everyone acquiring some. Designers spend careers on it, through exposure, pattern recognition, restraint, and the nerve to break