10 Tells of a Slop UI

Recently my college app was updated with “minor UI improvements”, and it was the most slop-coded user interface I have seen.

The old UI was clunky, but I would’ve preferred that over the slop cannon their AI agent produced.

Slop UI is the UI that AI cooks up that looks off, where it’s not supposed to be, doesn’t serve a purpose or when a UI is too generic.

This is seen in vibe-coded UI without a vision. Vibe-coded UI can look great when done right, but most don’t. And it makes the apps look cheap and unappealing to use.

Cloudflare recently slop-coded a website.

And also websites like this, you just know it when you see it. It’s like the AI videos these days:

anyhow. The following are the things that make up the slop.