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Cross pollination

Skill Dragoon0x/taste-skills/skills/reference-building/cross-pollination

Draw from architecture, fashion, music, food, and industrial design to expand your design taste range. Use when seeking inspiration beyond digital, building diverse reference sets, or expanding creative vocabulary.From its SKILL.md

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npx -y skills add Dragoon0x/taste-skills --skill cross-pollination

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Cross-Pollination

If all your references are from the same domain, your taste ceiling is whatever that domain already figured out.

How to use

  • /cross-pollination Apply cross-pollination constraints to reference building in this conversation.

Constraints

Diversity Requirements

  • MUST include references from at least 5 different domains in any reference board
  • MUST include: screen-based design, physical product design, spatial design, communication design, and a wild card
  • MUST organize cross-domain boards by principle, not by domain
  • A board theme should be a principle like "tension between structure and organic form" not a style like "minimalist"

Source Diversity

  • Swiss poster archives, Japanese packaging design, Brazilian graphic design
  • Indian textile patterns, Scandinavian industrial design, Soviet space program graphics
  • Italian magazine covers, contemporary African brand design, transit maps from different cities
  • Medical device interfaces, musical instrument interfaces, food plating compositions

Anti-Patterns

  • Only looking at design blogs and Dribbble
  • Cross-referencing as decoration ("inspired by architecture") instead of genuine principle transfer
  • Staying in your comfort zone of familiar references
  • Collecting volume without analyzing why the reference matters

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Just SKILL.md. No reference files, no scripts.

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