# Design Iteration — the 15-Version Method

**For visual work only.** Use this for anything you can *see* — websites, logos, UI components, brand visuals, layouts, graphics, video title cards, GIFs. It is **not** for writing, code logic, or any non-visual task.

## The idea

The hardest part about using AI is understanding how it interprets your prompts. This design hack lets you **speak the language of AI**. Instead of describing what you want in abstract words and hoping the AI guesses right, you create **15 versions** of what you intend to make, then choose the visual design elements that appeal to you most.

## How to use it

1. **Install this skill and invoke it.** Tell it what you want to make (e.g. "a landing-page hero," "a logo for a coffee brand").
2. **It creates 15 versions.** Each one is genuinely different — different layout, colours, background, and treatment. Not 15 tiny tweaks of the same idea.
3. **Look at all 15 side by side.** They are laid out on a single contact sheet so you can compare at a glance.
4. **Describe what you like from each iteration.** This is the whole trick — don't pick one winner, grab pieces:
   - *"Take the borders from #1 and add the stickers from #2."*
   - *"Use the colour scheme from #5 with the layout from #11."*
5. **It combines those into one version.** That becomes your v1.
6. **Keep going.** Every version is kept, so you can always go back — or borrow an idea from an earlier one while working on a later one.

## Why it works

Seeing 15 real examples teaches you what you want faster than describing it ever could. The 15 versions become your **vocabulary**: instead of reaching for the right words, you point at version 4 and say "more like this." Specific, example-based feedback ("the gold border from #3 with the serif font from #7") produces exactly what you want — "make it look better" does not.

## Under the hood

**1. 15-iteration generator** — creates 15 genuinely different visual versions, each with a distinct approach
**2. Element picker** — you name what you like from each; it specifies how to combine those elements
**3. Forward iterator** — builds the next version from your chosen elements, keeping the history so you can roll back

## Tips
- Each version must be substantially different, not a minor tweak.
- Don't ask which number to pick — describe what you like from several and let it combine them.
- Everything is delivered in one batch: the contact sheet, all 15 versions, and the combined result.

**Tags:** Design, Content Creation