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Re: How I Design with AI

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Post by rfgplk » Fri, Aug 28, 2026, 7:36 PM UTC

firemelt wrote: post #3

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

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.

Re: How I Design with AI

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Post by jamesponddotco » Fri, Aug 28, 2026, 10:16 PM UTC

firemelt wrote: post #3

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

I paid an actual designer to come up with a design system for my project, which I then made Claude follow. Works like a charm.

To give more details, the designer created the system in Figma and created a guideline document for a human to follow on how to use the system. I then gave those files to Claude Fable using Claude Design to turn it into code.

Then when I need to do anything design-related in the project, I make Claude follow the system. And I can use the guidelines to see if it’s following everything correctly or not.

Re: How I Design with AI

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Post by exolymph » Fri, Aug 28, 2026, 10:48 PM UTC

seizethecheese wrote: post #2

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.

Yes, as the article says:

> This should be very familiar because agents do exactly the same thing in code and plans. They love belt-and-suspenders, wrapping an extra try-catch or re-implementing the same utility over and over.