How our vibe coded website looks like a designer made it

OP, you accidentally invented the design process that they teach in design school. You can officially call yourself a designer.

1) have a high level functional goal

2) be inspired and think of a motif

3) go wide within that motif and explore

4) narrow in on a single direction and iterate

5) fine tune the details until you are creatively satisfied and the design meets your goals from step 1.

A designer did make it! The process you undertook is called design!

Answer: because a human designed it in an iterative process. LLMs just wrote the code.

it feels vibecoded though, it still has LLMisms

Yes, if the designer was named Claude or Astra, then it does indeed look like that designer created it.

I love this because, it reminds me that when people hate AI, They hate low effort AI slop.

This website demonstrates a tremendous amount of human effort, and it walks through the iterative design process that led to the final result. Taking inspiration, trying out ideas, tinkering—that's design.

So because of the article's premise, I'm going to be a bit of a dickhead. I hope nobody takes this the wrong way, because it's not a judgement on the developers. I have also shipped way worse vibecoded frontends and this is coming from a UI guy, so it's not about being an AI hater or anything.

Your site looks like an AI made it.

Now there is an actually easy fix: just replace the glass panels and tabs with something that actually fits the rest of the aesthetic. And then I could buy that it was human-designed, at which point, it basically was. And just AI-coded.

Otherwise it's quite cool, and well done.