Comment by voicedYoda
1 day ago
My biggest struggle is UI. I can make functional, but my design skills couldn't sell water to someone in death valley
1 day ago
My biggest struggle is UI. I can make functional, but my design skills couldn't sell water to someone in death valley
Same, honestly. I've dabbled in trying to come up with some UI stuff with LLMs, but I'm still not at the point where I'm totally comfortable. At my day job, luckily I have people much more talented than me at design who can provide feedback and guidance. For my personal side projects, I've had some modest success inducing the agent to provide the feedback from a suitable "persona", for lack of a better term (e.g. "Is there any existing standard on how to make this component accessible?", "How intuitive would you expect a non-technical user to find interaction with this?").
I read somewhere that Claude is better at UI than Codex. I haven't tested it yet. I am currently using Codex for a couple of native application projects with Avalonia. The UI isn't really good at all and I can fix it by hand far better than it does with prompts. For example, a table to view database data ended up with huge spaces between rows and columns and it can't seem to grasp how to format a table nicely. So I fixed it by hand, no big deal.
Pick a website you like, and tell claude to use it for inspiration. I do this all the time and the results are pretty impressive and different than what you get out of the box prompting.
> Pick a website you like, and tell claude to use it for inspiration.
I believe you misspelled "rip it off."
I guess I shouldn't be surprised that people are using the tools built by ripping off the collective creative works of humanity to rip off individual things, too.
Steve Jobs said something about good and great artists.
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When other people emulate your behavior because they appreciate the results you got, we used to call that leadership. Something has gone awry that we now call it a ripoff.
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im not ripping it off, or at least, i wouldnt consider that. a perfect example is artsy. i like the clean style of the website, and the colors, so if im building a prototype instead of getting the standard shadcn look i get something a bit different. im not building a competing product to artsy, i built a piece of software i run locally to aggregate my taxes everything year.