Nobody ships AI slop on purpose.
What is Taste Training?
You judge real screens against a clock, pick the stronger one, then read what you missed. Taste Training is Matthew Blode’s interactive design course for spotting AI slop: 48 lessons and 368 exercises across typography, copy, craft, interaction and motion. The first unit is free, no account.
What does the course cover?
- Train your eyeFree
- Make text feel right
- Make words earn their place
- Make space and colour feel chosen
- Decide what it does
- Make every interaction feel considered
- Use motion to explain change
- Rebuild real screens
- Keep your taste with AI
- Design AI people trust
Take them in any order. See your path.
How is this different from a video course or a book?
| What is being compared | Taste Training | A video course | A design book |
|---|---|---|---|
| What you do | Judge and repair real screens | Watch someone work | Read and take notes |
| How it’s measured | Timed accuracy on new screens | Not measured | Not measured |
| What it costs | $49, once | $100 to $250 | $30 to $50 |
| Try before you buy | First unit free, no account | A sample video | A sample chapter |
What proof is there that this works?
Matt Blode’s short course could really help with this: his designs are always super well-considered and effective, so if he can help us reproduce that then things will get better.
Builders attempting design from scratch usually default to whatever the framework spits out. The “train your eye” part is the real unlock.
As someone who occasionally resorts to design slop for mockups, this looks like a lifesaver.
Three more you can check yourself.
- The lessons are public.
- Every lesson is also an agent skill. Read them on GitHub before you pay for any of it.
- The first unit is free, in full.
- Train your eye is three full lessons, no account and no card. Not a sample.
- The certificate is timed, not attended.
- You have to sharpen 25 failure modes. Each one takes three correct answers on screens you haven’t seen, fast enough to count.
Buy it once
$49
, down from $99, per seat
The founding price, for the first 100 seats.
- 368 exercises: judge, locate, rank and repair
- Certificate for accuracy, not attendance
- Updates for the life of the course
Buying for a team? Team seats are 15–45% off.
Matthew Blode
AI at Linktree · Forbes 30 Under 30 · Exited to Linktree and me&uFrequently asked questions
Both. The principles work in Figma, in code, or in prompts. The technical lessons get hands-on, but the agent skill file takes you a long way without writing much code.
Yes. The first unit, Train your eye, is free: three lessons, no account and no card.
Yes. Every lesson doubles as an agent skill. Install them with
npx skills add mblode/agent-skills and your coding agent pulls the same guidance into your editor.There’s a 30-day money-back guarantee. Email me at m@blode.co inside 30 days and I’ll refund you, no reason needed.
Yes. Buy them together on the team page, 15–45% off depending on how many seats. One link to share, everyone claims their own seat, invoice included.
Yes, 20% off. Email me at m@blode.co from a .edu address, or send a photo of your student ID. I’ll send a code back.