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One Signature Element

SHOULD

SHOULD: Include one memorable, unforgettable element per design (animated border, distinctive illustration, dramatic typography, unexpected shadow). Ask: "What will someone remember?" If you cannot answer, add a signature element. One bold detail beats a dozen safe flourishes.

Give the page a single element it will be remembered by, and make it embody the brief

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Why it matters

A signature is not an effect you sprinkle on at the end — it is the one thing the page is for, formally. It might be a piece of dramatic typography, an interactive instrument drawn from the subject's own world, a hand-drawn diagram, an unexpected structural move. What disqualifies a signature is genericity: if it could belong to any other product, it is decoration. And it must be alone — a page with three signatures has none, which is why this pairs with spending boldness once.

Built by Gleb Stroganov, design engineer at Evil Martians.

The rules come from other people's skills and guidelines — Vercel, Rauno Freiberg, @Ibelick, impeccable, Emil Kowalski, Tailwind, RAMS — each one credited on the Sources page. The work here is extraction and wiring: every rule is pulled into one corpus, given a good and a bad example you can operate, a MUST/SHOULD/NEVER rule an agent can paste, and a link back to where it came from.