I think the concern here is a bit of a nothing burger. Everytime a tool comes out thar does design that is all you will see for a while. Think about cliparts impact on pta flyers for example. Also...
I think the concern here is a bit of a nothing burger. Everytime a tool comes out thar does design that is all you will see for a while. Think about cliparts impact on pta flyers for example. Also just the way the web has evolved such that you can classify designs by the decade, early Netscape navigator, the geocities free page look, the web ring look, then you start to see table layouts with contents down the left, then you hit WordPress era and the blog layout arrives, then cms managers get here and every software company has the same (which I personally hate ) layout for their product, and now we have Claude layouts with top cards and whatever else.
The nice thing about Claude though is you can just ask it to change it around. I've found though for one off web front ends it's super nice vs needing to think at all about making it interesting, generally im after functional myself.
I used Claude to improve the look of my site and I now regret it. At the time I was impressed with the results, but now I see patterns repeating across multiple sites. I worry that somebody will...
I used Claude to improve the look of my site and I now regret it. At the time I was impressed with the results, but now I see patterns repeating across multiple sites. I worry that somebody will come across my site and disregard it as AI slop even though I still manually wrote it from scratch.
I could go back to the old design, but the ironic thing is that my old design, with several hours of decision making, is not to far off from the current one. It had rounded corners, and simple line dividers. Most of what Claude did was help me find a better font pairing and generate a better color palette. I've decided to keep it as it is for now, try to improve my own design skills, and create something better in the future.
As somebody else said in this thread, it's not too different from when Bootstrap was popular and every other site had the default Bootstrap look. But the same way LLMs are more effective when a seasoned programmer writes a guide that directs them toward the correct output. They're also more effective when a seasoned designer sits down to write the style guide. And on the other end of the spectrum, the same way it's not enough to tell an LLM to just build an app without proper guidance or oversight, it's not enough to tell it to come up with an original design. It'll still make mistakes, some things will look odd. I can definitely tell when a developer didn't even try to fix a Claude generated UI, because —at least for me— all those small visual oddities accumulate the same way bad code does.
I think the concern here is a bit of a nothing burger. Everytime a tool comes out thar does design that is all you will see for a while. Think about cliparts impact on pta flyers for example. Also just the way the web has evolved such that you can classify designs by the decade, early Netscape navigator, the geocities free page look, the web ring look, then you start to see table layouts with contents down the left, then you hit WordPress era and the blog layout arrives, then cms managers get here and every software company has the same (which I personally hate ) layout for their product, and now we have Claude layouts with top cards and whatever else.
The nice thing about Claude though is you can just ask it to change it around. I've found though for one off web front ends it's super nice vs needing to think at all about making it interesting, generally im after functional myself.
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I used Claude to improve the look of my site and I now regret it. At the time I was impressed with the results, but now I see patterns repeating across multiple sites. I worry that somebody will come across my site and disregard it as AI slop even though I still manually wrote it from scratch.
I could go back to the old design, but the ironic thing is that my old design, with several hours of decision making, is not to far off from the current one. It had rounded corners, and simple line dividers. Most of what Claude did was help me find a better font pairing and generate a better color palette. I've decided to keep it as it is for now, try to improve my own design skills, and create something better in the future.
As somebody else said in this thread, it's not too different from when Bootstrap was popular and every other site had the default Bootstrap look. But the same way LLMs are more effective when a seasoned programmer writes a guide that directs them toward the correct output. They're also more effective when a seasoned designer sits down to write the style guide. And on the other end of the spectrum, the same way it's not enough to tell an LLM to just build an app without proper guidance or oversight, it's not enough to tell it to come up with an original design. It'll still make mistakes, some things will look odd. I can definitely tell when a developer didn't even try to fix a Claude generated UI, because —at least for me— all those small visual oddities accumulate the same way bad code does.