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In the next five minutes you will add a ban list to your brief — naming exactly what Claude must not do — and learn where banning tips over into micromanagement that makes the output worse.

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ProDirect the aesthetic

Ban the defaults

4 min read·Lesson 2 of Direct the aesthetic

In the next five minutes you will add a ban list to your brief — naming exactly what Claude must not do — and learn where banning tips over into micromanagement that makes the output worse.

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Direct the aesthetic

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Ban the defaults4m
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