Why Your AI App Looks Bad (and How to Fix It)
Who Runs The Code is a community for women in Hong Kong who want to build with AI. No coding background, no design background, no gatekeeping. Just people making things and figuring it out together.
This is our second session.
You can build an app with AI in ten minutes. But it usually comes out looking generic: purple gradient, cramped spacing, five buttons fighting for attention.
This session is about closing that gap. How to prompt for visuals that actually look designed, even if you've never opened Figma in your life. We'll get into why AI-generated UI looks the way it does, how to borrow good taste on purpose instead of hoping the model guesses right, and the handful of rules that make something look authored instead of generated.
The night: a short crash course, then you build, then we share what we made and hype each other up. Networking after.
Who it's for: women who wants to prompt better AI visuals. Bring a laptop and one idea, that's it.
Coming to a session means joining the community. The hub where members share what they're building, the group chat, and first access to whatever we do next.
Getting in: we keep the room to a real mix of industries and career stages, so there's a short application below. Takes a minute.
Bring: a laptop, and either one idea or something you already made that looks a little off and want to fix.
📍 Soho House Hong Kong
🗓️ Wednesday, September 2 · 7:00–9:30pm
Event Guidelines
Getting a spot
Sessions are approval-based and capped so the room stays conversational. Approved guests get a confirmation and calendar invite. Spots aren't transferable — if you'd like to bring someone, have them apply.
If you can't make it
Please cancel as early as you can so someone on the waitlist gets your seat. Repeated no-shows or last-minute cancellations may affect approval for future sessions.
Come to build, not to pitch
No selling, recruiting, or unsolicited promotion. If you're building something and it comes up naturally in conversation, wonderful — that's different from working the room.
Support over critique
Everyone here is at a different point, and most people are showing something unfinished. Feedback is welcome and encouraged, but make it specific and make it useful. "The spacing feels tight on mobile" helps. "That looks bad" doesn't. Nobody's work gets laughed at.
Take the principle, not the pixels
Distilling from things you admire is the whole method. Copying someone else's project outright isn't. That applies to the room too — if a fellow attendee's idea or execution inspires you, credit them and make it yours.
Respect and conduct
Follow venue rules and treat everyone here professionally. Harassment, discrimination, unwanted advances, intimidation, or recording people without asking will not be tolerated. If something happens, tell Karmen immediately. Violations mean leaving the session and not being approved for future ones.
Privacy
What people share about their work, their job, or themselves stays in the room unless they say otherwise.
Photos
We take photos and short clips for the community's social channels. If you'd rather not appear, let us know at the start and we'll work around you.
Your own risk
Attendance is voluntary. Organisers, venue, and sponsors aren't liable for injury, lost or stolen belongings, or damages.
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