When you can't describe the design you want, don't describe one — ask for four incompatible ones rendered live, and let your gut do the specifying. Reacting is easier than imagining.
“I want a review-queue dashboard for Acme but I have no visual taste and don't know what's possible. Make me one HTML page with 4 wildly different design directions so I can react to them.”
Same data, four philosophies. Every frame below renders the identical review queue — five videos awaiting review in Acme — so the only variable is the design. Under each frame, tap the chips for anything you'd steal or skip; your picks assemble a reply at the bottom of the page.
“Your review queue is an operational system. Show everything, waste nothing, let the anomalies pop.”
| ID | Video | Len | Reviewer | Cmts | Status | Age |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VR-2214 | Q3 launch teaser — v4 | 0:47 | MK · Kowalski | 12 | NEEDS CHANGES | 2h |
| VR-2213 | Onboarding walkthrough — final | 3:12 | DR · Raman | 3 | IN REVIEW | 5h |
| VR-2209 | Customer story: Halvorsen Co. | 2:05 | LT · Torres | 0 | WAITING | 1d 6h |
| VR-2206 | Homepage hero loop — v9 | 0:15 | MK · Kowalski | 7 | APPROVED* | 1d 8h |
| VR-2201 | Podcast clip — ep. 32 | 1:28 | JB · Beck | 1 | IN REVIEW | 2d 4h |
“Reviewing creative work should feel calm. One number that matters, then the queue as a reading list.”
“A review is a thing that moves. Show where each video sits in the pipeline, and how long it's been sitting.”
“No decoration, no chrome. A queue is a list; read it top to bottom and get out.”
| # | title | len | rev | cmt | status | age |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | q3-launch-teaser.v4 | 0:47 | MK | 12 | [NEEDS-CHANGES] | 2h |
| 2 | onboarding-walkthrough.final | 3:12 | DR | 3 | [IN-REVIEW] | 5h |
| 3 | customer-story.halvorsen | 2:05 | LT | 0 | [WAITING] | 1d6h |
| 4 | homepage-hero-loop.v9 | 0:15 | MK | 7 | [APPROVED+NOTES] | 1d8h |
| 5 | podcast-clip.ep32 | 1:28 | JB | 1 | [IN-REVIEW] | 2d4h |
You don't have to write a design brief — that's the whole point. Pick the direction whose attitude is right, then name the two or three details worth carrying over from the others. Tap a direction and the chips above; the reply writes itself.
Paste that back into the chat as-is. Claude will fold the steals into the winning direction and come back with one refined design — which is a far shorter conversation than trying to describe taste you didn't know you had.