Su Niannian said nothing.
Her earlier plan had only turned ugly school uniforms into slightly less ugly school uniforms. It still had not solved the fundamental problem.
Lin Wanqing stood up, swiped across the iPad a few times, and opened a folder containing examples of commercial projects she had taken on before. She handed the iPad to Su Niannian. Six app interfaces were displayed side by side on the screen.
"These are ones I made for different clients before," Lin Wanqing said. "Look at the color schemes, rounded corners, fonts, and icons. Every set is different, but the gap in design quality isn't that big. Where do you think the difference lies?"
Su Niannian swiped through them one by one.
"Style."
"Exactly, style." Lin Wanqing took back the iPad and opened a blank canvas. With the stylus, she quickly sketched several boxes. "It's not one set of components for everything. It's multiple style templates."
She drew a row of squares and wrote a few words inside each: "Minimalist Business," "Trendy Contrast Colors," "Fresh Nature," and "Dark Tech."
"Users choose a template, like choosing a filter," she said. "Then they generate it. The result comes with its own stylistic differences. An app generated by someone who chooses Fresh Nature will look completely different at first glance from one generated by someone who chooses Dark Tech."
Su Niannian stared at those squares for a while.
"One extra choice," she said. "Won't users find that troublesome and just stop using it?"
"It's not one more step, it's three fewer steps," Lin Wanqing said. "Right now, users generate something they don't like, change the description and generate it again, then change it again if they still don't like it—they have to try three or four times before stumbling onto the feeling they want. With