The insight about agents loving to add stuff is spot on for more than just design. They'll do this for technical architecture, adding unnecessary guards, complexity to cover irrelevant edge cases. They'll do this for writing too, unnecessary caveats, clarifications, etc.
firemelt · 2026-08-28 17:53:48 UTC
anyone know how to design webapp effectively using claude design?
because I feel always end up with similar web designs everytime
I tell claude to revamp my web app
This seems like a good next step. ty for sharing as first time seeing it.
yipinwong · 2026-08-28 17:58:14 UTC
The author's way is more bespoke (and less aislop path), so if you are not familiar with web design, you might get lost.
Since you gotta start somewhere,
If you are prototyping without web design experience, navigite to https://getdesign.md/ and find ones you like and make AI use it.
rfgplk · 2026-08-28 19:36:03 UTC
Less is more. When you end up creating something try to strip away all the bloat and only use the essentials (nav bars/menus) and then iterate on that with fonts that you like or pleasing colorschemes. My best go to piece of advice is to just go here https://color.adobe.com/create/color-wheel and mess around with the various color harmonies until you get something you like. Then you take that font + color scheme back into Claude Design and tell it to apply it to your stripped down design.
yipinwong · 2026-08-28 17:56:24 UTC
This feels like it can be a "skill" :)
Anyways, one thing to point out is the "constraints". Constraints are something you cannot change (and AI should abide to it).
I liked the fact that the author used "add" or "remove", and not used "modify/update" because constraints should be added or removed only unlike non-functional requirements, which can be modified.
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The author's recommneded book "Notes on the Synthesis of Form" looks cool (will check it out)
esafak · 2026-08-28 17:57:18 UTC
My pain point is that design tools imitate Figma in using JSON to represent the design, which originates in JS, but without rendering it into HTML and CSS to get a pixel perfect representation. Instead, the MCP imagines what the JSON will be, and it is never perfect.
So the existing tools can't even go in one direction accurately. None of them let you edit the 'rendered' visual and reflect it accurately back to code, or sync with Figma.
There is money to be made.
Vishal_Max · 2026-08-28 17:59:20 UTC
Thanks for sharing this, mate.
Lately, I’ve been trying to design some websites completely using AI as side projects, and all I’ve gotten is disappointment at how AI-ish the websites can look and how easily people get repelled just by seeing them.
Gualdrapo · 2026-08-28 18:17:58 UTC
This kinda sounds like so-called "design thinking" but with ai and extra steps
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because I feel always end up with similar web designs everytime I tell claude to revamp my web app
Since you gotta start somewhere, If you are prototyping without web design experience, navigite to https://getdesign.md/ and find ones you like and make AI use it.
Anyways, one thing to point out is the "constraints". Constraints are something you cannot change (and AI should abide to it).
I liked the fact that the author used "add" or "remove", and not used "modify/update" because constraints should be added or removed only unlike non-functional requirements, which can be modified.
---
The author's recommneded book "Notes on the Synthesis of Form" looks cool (will check it out)
So the existing tools can't even go in one direction accurately. None of them let you edit the 'rendered' visual and reflect it accurately back to code, or sync with Figma.
There is money to be made.
Lately, I’ve been trying to design some websites completely using AI as side projects, and all I’ve gotten is disappointment at how AI-ish the websites can look and how easily people get repelled just by seeing them.