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How our vibe coded website looks like a designer made it

137 points · 77 comments · yakkomajuri

  1. ananmays · · focus · HN ↗
    A designer did make it! The process you undertook is called design!
    1. arecsu · · focus · HN ↗
      Literally yes
      1. Gualdrapo · · focus · HN ↗
        > Most times I'll grab ideas from multiple places, combine them, and endlessly iterate on them until I get to something I'm happy with.

        The "designer" happens to not to be human. At that point it just sounds like going to a website template store and scrolling endlessly through options until you find a template you'd say "meh, this will do".

        1. kdkcienciencjs · · focus · HN ↗
          That’s not how it works.

          Iteration is a critical part of good design-work, no matter the tool you use to do it. You don’t have to be drawing things by hand to be designing them.

    2. SV_BubbleTime · · focus · HN ↗
      I had this out with one of my employees, they were giving me shit for using Claude Design, and just how many iterations it took to get what I wanted.

      I explained that exactly what design is I just lack the skills to do it in illustrator and Photoshop but yes, no one gets it right the first time.

    3. OzzyB · · focus · HN ↗
      We need to make ppl understand this!
      1. xattt · · focus · HN ↗
        What prompt should I use to replicate similar epiphanies?
        1. nozzlegear · · focus · HN ↗
          "chat read this long ass tweet and do the same stuff make no mistakes"
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