Weniger
Free skill for coding agents · v0.4

Give your site the Dieter Rams treatment.

Point your coding agent at your site and ask for Weniger. It reworks the interface in the spirit of Dieter Rams: warm greys, controls you can feel, one accent, nothing placed by accident. Your content stays as it is.

One plain-text file, by email. No account.
01The standard

This is the look your site gets.

The board below is where the principles were worked out, one correction at a time. Nothing here is a recording: every control is live markup, running on its own. It is the standard Weniger takes your site to.

Try the components On a phone, each tap gives a tick.
december 2026 schedule
motuwethfrsasu
customer call, thu 10:00
thinking layerlook and voice
pace position 2 of 5
sketching quickly something to point at
mid-fi
sketchpixel-perfect
design review 1 of 5 done
multidisciplinary four disciplines, one team
appearance light, whole board
send feedback
honest, kind, no ego
tothe whole team
aboutcheckout, round 2
tonedirect and warm
customer call voice note, listen first
0:00
what makes this hard for you?
after step two I lose my way.
inclusive
edge cases
focus running
24:37
explore variants
4
experiment 1 is running
time 22:14
thursday 12 november
code 1955 locked
24 px
snaps to 4 px
role today form and behaviour
voice note −27 dB
quietpeak
one-step checkout running 412 +4.1%
show price upfront won 1,280 +9.6%
longer onboarding stopped 655 −2.3%
6.9
week 3+0.1 since start
30 components · 2 themes · 3 layouts · 0 image files
02The difference

The same parts, redone.

Every site is built from the same few parts. Here are three of them, as most sites ship them and as Weniger rebuilds them.

A button you can press.

It sinks when you press it. A change of colour alone says nothing.

A switch that stays in its track.

The thumb fits inside and eases to its place. Nothing bounces out.

A choice you can see.

The track is sunk, the choice is raised. You can tell without colour.

03The principles

Twenty principles, each with a reason.

No mood board and no “make it minimal”. Five groups of four, written so an agent can rework your interface and check its own work against them.

All twenty, with tokens and a motion starter, come in the file. Get the skill
So every element earns its place.
  1. 01Every element has a job.If you cannot say what it does, it goes.
  2. 02A label names the function.Short, in sentence case, set beside the control it belongs to.
  3. 03State shows without colour.Position, depth or a lamp says on or off. Colour only confirms it.
  4. 04One primary action per view.Everything else steps back a level.
04Where it came from

It started with a love for the design of Dieter Rams.

I am a product designer, and his work is what I measure mine against. A dial you want to turn. A switch that shows where it stands. Nothing added to impress, nothing left to chance.

So when I asked an agent for a component board, that is what I asked for. What came back worked, and looked like everything else. Getting it right took far more work than I expected: round after round, each time naming one more thing his work never gets wrong. A shadow. A corner. A switch that bounced.

Those corrections are now the principles in the skill, so your agent hears them before it starts. The name is half of his motto, “Weniger, aber besser”: less, but better.

“The switch bounces out of its track.” No. 17No overshoot inside a frame.
“The numbers push the button off the card.” No. 11Content never moves its frame.
“The reset snaps. It feels harsh.” No. 19Nothing jumps. Values ease back.
05How it works

Three steps. Your agent does the rest.

  1. Get the file by email

    Leave your address. One email arrives, with one button that downloads a small folder.

  2. Put it in your agent’s skills folder

    It is plain text. Read every line before you trust it.

  3. Point it at your site
    Rework this site with Weniger.
What the agent does Illustration
read skills/weniger-ui/SKILL.md
take stock of the interface
set tokens, light and dark
rework each part, check the twenty principles
report what changed and what stayed
06Fit

For sites that work and deserve to look designed.

Founders with a product and no design team.
Developers whose site works but looks generated.
Anyone who wants the calm of a Rams product on their own screen.
Not for a loud brand, or for deciding what your site says. It changes the interface; the content stays yours.
07Questions

Fair things to ask.

What is the Dieter Rams connection?

The name is half of his motto, “Weniger, aber besser”: less, but better. The look follows his way of working: honest, quiet, thorough down to the last detail. Weniger is an ode to that thinking. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by Dieter Rams or Braun.

What does it change on my site?

The interface: colour, depth, corners, type styles, spacing and motion. Your content, your structure and your links stay where they are.

Is it really free?

Yes. You give an email address, you get the file, and now and then an update when the skill improves.

Which agents does it work with?

Any agent that reads skill folders, including Claude, Cursor and Codex. It is plain text, so you can also paste it into a prompt.

Will my site look like every other Weniger site?

It will look restrained on purpose. The accent, the ground colour and the typeface are tokens you change in one place, so your brand colour can stay.

Can I use it for something new?

Yes. Ask your agent to build with Weniger and it starts from the same twenty principles.

Does it replace a designer?

No. It gives your interface one careful, consistent look. Deciding what to build, and for whom, is still a person’s job.

Less, but better. On your own site.

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Model
Weniger UI
Version
0.4
Contents
20 principles, tokens, motion starter
Format
Plain text
Price
Free