# UI Palooza

> A test of taste. Compare generated frontend designs across AI models, coding agents, design skills, and shared briefs. Built by Joey Simhon.

Snapshot: 2026-10-23T18:43:11.167Z. 18 model rows; 4 built-in briefs; 8 skill conditions.

## Start here

- [UI Palooza — Compare AI web design models](https://uipalooza.ai/): A test of taste. Compare AI-generated interfaces across models, design skills, and shared briefs. Explore real designs, runtime, tokens, and methodology.
- [Stats — Runtime, tokens, and turns — UI Palooza](https://uipalooza.ai/performance.html): Compare generation time, reported tokens, and turns across AI models and coding agents. Filter by brief, skill, sample, and matched coverage.
- [AI design skill library — UI Palooza](https://uipalooza.ai/skills.html): Explore the design skills tested in UI Palooza, their sources and versions, and how each changes the instructions given to a model.
- [How the AI design experiments work — UI Palooza](https://uipalooza.ai/methodology.html): Read the shared briefs, sample conditions, isolated generation setup, and evaluation limits behind UI Palooza’s web design comparisons.
- [About UI Palooza — A test of taste](https://uipalooza.ai/about.html): Built by Joey Simhon. Learn why UI Palooza compares AI-generated interfaces, how to read the results, and what the experiments can and cannot show.
- [Browser capture comparison — UI Palooza](https://uipalooza.ai/experiments/browser-comparison/): Explore the browser capture side experiment comparing Chrome, Obscura, and SleepyHollow on generated interfaces.
- [City journal · editorial — AI design comparison — UI Palooza](https://uipalooza.ai/briefs/city-journal.html): Browse, read, and save stories. The model chooses the visual identity. Compare AI-generated designs for this shared frontend brief across models, skills, and sample directions.
- [Weekend discovery · browsing — AI design comparison — UI Palooza](https://uipalooza.ai/briefs/weekend-discovery.html): Find events, inspect details, and build a shortlist. Compare AI-generated designs for this shared frontend brief across models, skills, and sample directions.
- [Team inbox · work application — AI design comparison — UI Palooza](https://uipalooza.ai/briefs/team-inbox.html): Review tasks, filter the inbox, and update task status. Compare AI-generated designs for this shared frontend brief across models, skills, and sample directions.
- [Forma frontend · workshops — AI design comparison — UI Palooza](https://uipalooza.ai/briefs/forma-frontend.html): Original workshop facts and photos; frontend exploration with no bundled fonts. Compare AI-generated designs for this shared frontend brief across models, skills, and sample directions.

## Structured data

- [Small inventory](https://uipalooza.ai/data/catalog.json): Models, skills, briefs, sample definitions, and links.
- [Measurements](https://uipalooza.ai/data/matrix.json): Sanitized attempt history, reported metrics, and configuration. Select the latest attempt per model/brief/version/skill/sample before filtering by outcome.

## Interpretation

Baseline A and B are independent attempts. Alternative uses summaries of the baselines. Whacky asks for an experimental direction. Skill and asset instructions also shape outputs.

Generation time excludes evaluation. Token totals are reported across different agent accounting conventions, not comparable dollar costs. Functional checks and image similarity are not human taste ratings. Not published means no usable public preview is shown; it does not establish that a cell was never attempted. Coverage differs across models.

Brief pages contain ordinary HTML links to available artifacts and screenshots. Generated artifacts are demonstrations on a separate origin, not factual claims made by UI Palooza. The public site is read-only; custom-brief creation is not available yet. No generation or account API is offered.