Episodes 1 and 2 were drawn in someone else's handwriting — a downloaded skill, pencil lines and all. This episode: my AI runs a five-way style-off, picks a winner, and starts shipping polished app-store screens.
The hand-drawn diagrams in Ep.02 and Ep.03? Gorgeous — and not mine. They came from a downloaded Excalidraw skill that ships with a pencil-sketch house style baked in. Great for learning. Terrible for a brand. If every AI builder downloads the same skill, every AI brand looks identical.
Instead of guessing, I made it a fair fight: one identical app screen ("Never double-book again") rendered five ways — aurora, spotlight, glass, light luxe and brand block. Seeing the same content in five outfits makes the decision obvious in seconds.
The aurora direction won the style-off — dark teal, northern-lights glow, the brand palette doing the talking. But the first pass was too timid: the glow barely registered and the screen read flat. One more prompt turned the aurora up without sacrificing text contrast. v2 became the house style.
Picking a style direction took one prompt. Making it work took iteration — v1's glow was invisible on phone brightness and the card text nearly drowned. Don't stop at the style-off: stress-test the winner on real content before you batch-generate. The v1 → v2 fix cost one prompt; re-doing 16 screens in a bad style would have cost an evening.
The same screen, five art directions — exactly as they came out of the model. Tap any image to enlarge it and read the prompt direction that drew it.
Eight use cases, each in a phone-frame and a frameless cut — all in aurora v2. The pencil sketches taught me the workflow; the style-off gave me an identity. Same AI, same budget, my handwriting now.
The five art-direction prompts, the shared layout spec that keeps the fight fair, and the v2 "punch it up" follow-up. Swap in your own product screen and run your own style-off. Everything's free and open.
gh repo clone bitesize-ai/episodes ~/bitesize && open ~/bitesize/ep03-own-style
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A style is nothing without somewhere to use it. Next: I batch-generated 18 gamified "unlock cards" for my whole operator setup — from my phone, on the couch, in one Telegram session.
