If you specify your curiousity more I’m happy to add more details, but here are some high points. These refer to default projects — your edits on the projects can plug these holes.
General philosophical point: Claude has a design skill. It tells Claude how to make things. This means Claude always makes things according to those guidelines. Humans don’t have that design skill, so they design a zillion different ways. Good design is about making a design that fits what you need to show, but poor Claude has to make anything we ask, so Claude’s design skill is very generic.
Claude always uses the same structure in its color palette. Choose one that fits your project and you’ll fix ~30% of the AI smell.
Claude always uses the same generic format with a left sidebar of about the same size, uses serif and sans serif fonts in the same places, and picks typefaces and font sizes the same way. Break all this up and you can fix ~40% of the AI smell left. Again, just pick a theming that you personally like and you’ll fix this.
If you’d like to get help on how to apply these principles in a way that removes AI smell, I find the Edward Tufte design principles to overlap really badly with Claude. That doesn’t mean this is a good short route to fixing it, I’m just admitting it’s the best that I know of.
If you specify your curiousity more I’m happy to add more details, but here are some high points. These refer to default projects — your edits on the projects can plug these holes.
General philosophical point: Claude has a design skill. It tells Claude how to make things. This means Claude always makes things according to those guidelines. Humans don’t have that design skill, so they design a zillion different ways. Good design is about making a design that fits what you need to show, but poor Claude has to make anything we ask, so Claude’s design skill is very generic.
Claude always uses the same structure in its color palette. Choose one that fits your project and you’ll fix ~30% of the AI smell.
Claude always uses the same generic format with a left sidebar of about the same size, uses serif and sans serif fonts in the same places, and picks typefaces and font sizes the same way. Break all this up and you can fix ~40% of the AI smell left. Again, just pick a theming that you personally like and you’ll fix this.
If you’d like to get help on how to apply these principles in a way that removes AI smell, I find the Edward Tufte design principles to overlap really badly with Claude. That doesn’t mean this is a good short route to fixing it, I’m just admitting it’s the best that I know of.
Best of luck!