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by yakkomajuri 2 days ago
Interestingly, I've found that AI has actually made me more interested in design because I'm now able to actually do some things, whereas before I couldn't get my creative visions built.

As an example, I recently built my company's website and I'm really happy with the result. I wanted it to have some hints of Rollercoaster Tycoon, and with a lot of experimentation, direction, tinkering, and examples I got to something that I really liked. Two years ago my company website would have been some generic Bootstrap thing until I hired a designer.

There's a lot to improve and certainly some aspects of it feel like AI still but it's generally gotten a lot of positive feedback and above all I really like it. Considering writing a blog post about my creative process here because I'm a dev with no design background at all.

Sharing a screenshot as to not promote: https://imgur.com/a/xqKi6X6 (in the website everything in the park moves btw)

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I love it. I'm doing similar, where I am using AI for front end work but I'm refining in 300 iterations. Removing most of the AIisms and low effort copy.

I'm rewriting my 11 year old SaaS. If anyone is interested or want to give me feedback, my contact in bio.

Just wanted to say, really nice design. Night and day compared to the generic starting ones linked below.
Thank you! Yeah it's all part of the process
Thanks for not shipping your first draft!
Oh yeah I mean check these out:

https://imgur.com/a/kLKTtAz

https://imgur.com/a/9fidnRv

The rollercoaster on the second one was the breakthrough that then eventually led to what I have today

The second link here is easily my favorite of the three.
Ha interesting! Well I don't hate it but much prefer the current version ofc

But that's how taste works! It's personal

Seconding the other comment, that second one is by far my favorite
Well yeah I liked it as well at the time but also it feels a bit out of place? Like what does a rollercoaster have to do with this product?