I let Claude redesign my website
TL;DR Start from a picture, not a brief, and compare options before any code. That's how this site stopped looking AI-made.
You're looking at it. This website was redesigned with Claude, and the hard part wasn't the code. It was making it not look like every other AI-made site: same gradient, same rounded cards, same fonts.
What worked: I started with a picture, not a brief. I handed over one banner from my video series and said: make the site feel like this. “Warm” or “modern” means something different to everyone. An image doesn't.
Then I asked for options before any code. A design canvas with palettes, fonts, our crocodile logo in six colours, and homepage mock-ups for desktop and mobile. I compared everything side by side before one line of the site changed.
Give the AI a reference image and ask for three directions side by side. Choose with your eyes, then let it build.
