[kevinsync]

I consider UI/UX unsolved thus far by LLM. It's also, and this is personal taste, the part I'm mostly keeping for myself because of the way I work. I tend to start in Photoshop to mess around with ideas and synthesize a layout and general look and feel; everything you can do in there does translate to CSS, albeit sometimes obtusely. Anyways, I do a full-fidelity mockup of the thing, break it up in terms of structural layout (containers + elements), then get that into HTML (either by hand or LLM) with padding and hard borders to delineate holes to plug with stuff (not unlike framing a house) -- intentionally looks like shit.

I'll then have Claude work on unstyled implementation (ex. just get all the elements and components built and on the page) and build out the site or app (not unlike running plumbing, electric, hanging drywall)

After focusing on all the functionality and optimizing HTML structure, I've now got a very representative DOM to style (not unlike applying finishes, painting walls, furnishing and decorating a house)

For novel components and UI flourishes, I'll have the LLM whip up isolated, static HTML prototypes that I may or may not include into the actual project.

I'll then build out and test the site and app mostly unstyled until everything is solid (I find it much easier to catch shit during this stage that's harder to peel back later, such as if you don't specify modals need to be implemented via <dialog> and ensure consistent reuse of a singular component across the project, the LLM might give you a variety of reimplementations and not take advantage of modern browser features)

Then at the end, once the water is running and the electricity is flowing and the gas is turned on, it's so much easier to then just paint by numbers and directly implement the actual design.

YMMV, this process is for if you have a specific vision and will accept nothing less -- god knows for less important stuff I've also just accepted whatever UI/UX Claude spits out the first time because on those projects it didn't matter.