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Ask your manager

Most people don’t pay for this out of their own pocket. Here’s a letter you can send. Copy it, cut anything that isn’t true of your team, and send it.

Hi [manager],

I’d like to expense a seat on Taste Training, an interactive course on judging interface quality. It’s $49, once, and I think it pays for itself the first time it saves us a round of rework.

Here’s the problem it solves.

We ship AI-generated UI now, and it arrives fast. It also arrives about 90% right, and the last 10% is the part a customer feels: type set a size off, spacing with no system behind it, copy that fills the box without saying anything, motion that lands late, states nobody drew. Most of us can tell that a screen is off. Very few of us can say why, out loud, in a review, in a sentence the person who built it can act on.

That gap costs us in ways that never show up on a ticket. Review threads that run three rounds because “make it feel more polished” isn’t a change request. Work redone a week later, when someone finally names the thing. A surface we quietly stop being proud of and rebuild in six months.

Taste Training trains the naming. It’s 46 lessons and 325 exercises across 10 units, and it isn’t a set of videos: each lesson is a run of timed exercises where you pick the stronger of two real interfaces and then read what separated them. It tracks 32 named failure modes separately, so what comes back is what I personally keep missing, spread over weeks rather than crammed into an afternoon.

What I’d bring back:

  • Faster, more specific design review. A named failure mode instead of “it looks off”.
  • Better output from the tools we already use, because the fix and the prompt come out of the same vocabulary.
  • Something the team can share. Every lesson also installs as an agent skill, so what I learn ends up in the repo rather than only in my head.

The details:

  • $49 once, per person. No subscription, and the seat doesn’t expire.
  • 30-day money-back guarantee.
  • The first unit is free, 3 lessons with no account and no card, if you’d rather look at it yourself first: https://blode.co/taste-training
  • There’s a certificate at the end, and it’s earned on timed accuracy re-demonstrated a week later on a different example, not on having watched everything.
  • If a few of us want in, team seats are 15–45% off in one checkout: https://blode.co/taste-training/team

Thanks for considering it.

[your name]

Asking for more than one seat? Team seats are 15–45% off in one checkout, and that page is written for the person approving it.