Comment by khasan222

I built a few websites, most of them it wouldn’t be wise to place on here. But someone emailed me about this, so I’ll do my best to help I did build https://hartwork.life for a friend with a design from open ai (pre google stitch which is my current preferred tool)

Here is the line from my Claude code to get something like this. Keep in mind I didnt use mcp for playwright with this particular implementation but it is my preferred method currently. Tha

CRITICAL - When implementing a feature based off of an image mockup, use google chrome from the applications folder set the browser dimensions to the width and height of the mockup, capture a screenshot, and compare that screenshot directly to the mockup with imagemagick. If the image is less than 90% similar go back and try and modify the code so that way the website matches the mockup closer. If a change you make makes the similarity go down, undo it, and try something else. be mindful the fonts will never be laid out exactly like the mockup, please use blur at a max of 10% to see if the images are closer matching. If you spend more than 10 cycles screen-shotting and comparing, stop and show the user how similar they are mentioning any problems

The more text the harder it becomes and it’s why we really need the blue because fonts are almost always rendered differently.

https://poolometer.com

I built this frontend with Sonnet 4.5 last Fall and I’m about to “launch” it

I used only prompts, but those prompts included ChatGPT’s research on Memphis design ;)

Using codex for front end design is like asking the valedictorian mega nerd to paint your portrait. Gemini and Claude are both artists.

Hey, one thing I made with this technique is hartwork.life a simple Wordpress store for a friend. I used open ai to design it for me, and then used the techniques above to get Claude code to implement the proper designs.

I am still trying to learn how to wrangle Claude properly, but I have this Claude.md[1] for that I used to make the website. In particular one of the last rules about using imageMagick for comparison.

I haven’t touched this website in a bit (waiting on client) so now I use playwright mcp for the screenshots and the browser interactions.

[1] https://github.com/panda01/hartwork-woocommerce-wp-theme/blo...

I started with a boilerplate but AI has been huge at letting me get what I want in terms of frontend building when I was never talented at design or css.

I built https://bridge.ritza.co (demo@example.com username and password if you don't want to sign up) as a trello/linear replacement without looking at a single line of code and it's both good enough for me and doesn't have the obvious AI frontend 'look' as it was copying from the starter.

Pixel perfect means it looks EXACTLY like the design comp.

It goes completely out of the window if the browser window isn't the exact size of the mockup.

You might charitably say that pixel perfect means that the implementation intersects with the design comp at some specific dimensions but where are the extra rules coming from, then?

It's an archaic term that conflates the artifact produced by an incomplete design process (an artist's rendering of what the web page might look like) with the actual inputs of the development process (values and constraints).

"Pixel perfect" is about attention to detail and consistency. Margins, padding, or the combination of these inside other containers will stick out when they're not consistent.

Here's an example that I personally encountered: what if you have a <h1>Text</h1> and it has a certain left margin. Then another heading except it has a nested button component (which internally comes with some padding). Then the "Text" in both aren't aligned from section to section and it is jarring.

It's kind of wild in terms of how it will use different random designs, even given a specific style guideline. Even if you tell it to use a given framework like MUI or Mantine, it will stray largely from format.

I don't mind working through a lot of the UI myself, but it's definitely a shortcoming IMO... that said, being able to scaffold boilerplate or testing harnesses for for complex UI has been really nice overall. I came up with the following component as an image zoom component, where I can separately control the zoom in/out in under a couple hours... took longer to setup the CI/CD stuff than the primary component logic.

https://tracker1.github.io/image-zoomer-too/

Eh, for many reasons I am not posting it here. It is a passion project for something and would lead to problems if I post it here. That being said I was trying to share the technique.

The reason for the post is that even without the actual website one should be able to envision the technique and how it may or may not work. Also if you look above recently I added links to the Claude.md for another thing I was working on for a friend that also had to solve this problem.

Just want to give people the tools to use ai well from my own findings

Software developers have been calling their stuff "beautiful" for years now. It's bullshit. Almost none of it is beautiful. They just mean it looks like whatever is trendy at the time.

You could argue that what you built isn't novel or complex in any way -- (politely) it's basically a clone of hundreds of other SAAS homepages. i.e. its a perfect use-case for AI.

Perhaps the results would be different if you had a specific novel design or interaction in mind, and you wanted the AI to implement that exactly as you wanted.

edit: My point proven by the other examples from this thread. Same format, same "feature cards" etc. https://bridge.ritza.co/ https://poolometer.com/

It shows.

The landing page looks like every other AI slopped product page out there.

  > Your data,
  > irectl in you
  > spreadsheets

I'm guessing the third word is "directly“? The D is cut off. And the grammar is wrong, should be "in your spreadsheets" - maybe that is another letter cut off?

Go back to human devs.

Imagine being a luddite in the big 26

Ask it to take control of a browser using something like Playwright and use the UI itself like an end user would and evaluate whether it is a good experience.