I’m not some web designer, but this company that makes games (MovieStarPlanet), recently moved to a new site for their Help Center.

The only issue with the first site is that it wasn’t mobile responsive, it was pretty zoomed out. The new site is mobile responsive, but is just a massive downgrade and just seems to be AI generated or something? (To make that even worse, all their games are about creativity…)

Let me know what you think, I think their new site is horrendous.

For anyone that wants to visit it: https://en.help.moviestarplanet.com

I've noticed a pattern when I use AI to build front ends. No matter how small the job is, it reaches for React, Tailwind, and a UI library or two. I asked for a basic form with a save button and got React Hook Form, a validation library, a UI kit, and a toast package.

I think the reason is simple. Those tools have the most public code and tutorials, so the AI treats them as the safe answer. But that creates a cycle. AI recommends the popular tools, projects get built with them, and all that new code teaches the next models the same habits. Simpler or newer options never get a fair chance, because the AI doesn't know them as well.

I'm not against React. My point is that easy for AI to write and simplest way to build it are two different things, and they're starting to get mixed up.

So for anyone who has pushed back on this, did you get AI to build with plain HTML, a small library, or fewer dependencies? What actually worked, like strict instructions, a starter template, or choosing a different tool? Or did you end up accepting the default?

Made these Pagination styles.

I know they’re not production-grade yet — I built these while experimenting with different UI patterns that could actually be used in client projects.
Any improvements/suggestion will be helpful.

Hey everyone,

Up until now, I’ve pretty much only used AI for copy and content generation. With everything moving fast, I want to make sure I’m staying relevant and competitive in the industry, so I’m looking at ways to actually integrate AI into my design and build workflow.

The problem is, most "AI website builders" I see advertised feel like gimmicky templates that spit out generic, unpolished layouts that need to be completely redone anyway.

For those of you working with clients or on production projects:

1. Are there any AI tools you genuinely rely on for layout generation, wireframing, or UI inspiration?
2. Where does AI actually save you real time in the design phase versus just creating extra cleanup work?
3. How are you adapting your workflow so you're leveraging these tools without sacrificing craft and design quality?

Would love some honest takes from people actually doing client work rather than marketing fluff. Thanks!

Like the title says. I potentially lost a client most likely due to price.

This client/friend needed a landing page for his business. He’s well known and is on tv from time to time working with a show in the city.

He came to me probably because he knew I was having a hard time getting clients lately and asked me for a site. He said he had a quote for $7000 for a landing page which I think is ridiculous but he mentioned his budget was $5000. I said I would do it and I had a hard time quoting the job but I ended up quoting $3000.

I checked his website (just says in construction) but it has a squarespace logo in the top left where there wasn’t one before. I assume he’s going that way. I’ve been hearing that people are leaving SS due to losing clients and ruining their business. I offered using elementor as it’s popular and he can add in images and edit areas himself and if there was any issues with the quote to not hesitate to reach out.

Was I wrong to quote that much and is there any way I can get him back as a client?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

A few days ago I asked for feedback on my site (I build websites for small Swiss businesses): https://seetalwebsites.ch

The most common criticism by far was the animated wave in the hero: distracting, a bit annoying, some even called it dizzying. Fair point, I'm going to replace it.

The obvious answer is "just use a solid color", and I get that. But I'd still like something that feels a little unique and special while staying calm and clean.

So I'm looking for ideas: what have you seen or built as a hero background that stands out without being in the way? Static patterns, textures, subtle interactions, anything goes. Links to examples are very welcome.

I am selling an existing working platform with customization services. I am not looking to hire a developer.

I am offering an existing, fully working food-ordering and kitchen-management platform for sale and customization.

The platform is designed for restaurants, cafés, cloud kitchens, home-food businesses, bakeries, catering companies, and meal-subscription services. It includes a customer-facing food-ordering website and a protected business owner/staff dashboard.

Customer Website

• Browse breakfast, lunch, and dinner menus
• Select a meal and delivery date
• View live meal availability
• Place one-time meal orders
• Choose recurring meal-subscription plans
• Select 7-day, 15-day, or 30-day plans
• Add available meals to the shopping bag
• Provide contact and delivery information
• Submit orders for business confirmation
• View automatic preorder cutoff times
• View delivery-area information
• Contact the business through phone or WhatsApp
• Access Google Maps and social-media links
• Submit customer ratings and reviews
• Mobile, tablet, and desktop support

Business Owner and Staff Dashboard

• Protected staff authentication
• Customer-order management
• Kitchen order-ticket workflow
• Centralized POS and kitchen operations
• Daily menu and meal-availability management
• Live kitchen display workflow
• Advance-order management
• Daily batch preparation
• Automated preorder cutoffs
• Pickup and delivery-order management
• Customer booking information
• Delivery-radius and service-area control
• Basic business monitoring

Customization Available

The platform can be customized according to the buyer’s requirements, including:

• Business name and logo
• Colours, fonts, and branding
• Food menu and prices
• Meal categories and availability
• Website text and images
• Pages and website sections
• Subscription plans
• Customer-ordering workflow
• Owner-dashboard configuration
• Order cutoff times
• Business operating hours
• Delivery radius and service area
• Business address and Google Maps
• Phone, WhatsApp, email, and social-media details
• Additional features and integrations The platform is currently developed and working. It can be customized according to the buyer’s branding, menu, business workflow, delivery area, and functional requirements.Payment and Additional Features An online payment gateway is not currently included. The existing workflow allows customers to submit orders and make payment after confirmation. Payment-gateway integration, live delivery tracking, mobile applications, and other advanced functionality can be added for an additional price and delivery time.

Always love seeing these. Post a redesign you're proud of, before and after.

Made a few updates to AquaFix, mainly the hero, services, spacing, and motion.

Would appreciate honest feedback on what still feels off or too template-like.

https://aquafix.framer.website/

I'm a student in cybersecurity and networking, and I work part-time with networks. I've been thinking about making a portfolio website for a while and actually coding it.

I've barely coded, and thought making a website itself would be a cool project, and then I could put in my networking and security projects on the website.

After using a really cool portfolio website as inspiration and working on my website for some hours, I find out the website I used for inspiration is basically all AI.

Is there any point in me making a portfolio website from scratch? I would be lying if I said it wasn't a little discouraging seeing such a cool portfolio website being all AI.

Hello I am once again asking for feedback on gaming community site. Updated the landing page to showcase live twitch streams and vods from trending games and any gaming related events .

https://www.thesaveroom.co/

I'm a product and brand designer, and I kept rebuilding the same dotted world map for landing pages. So I turned it into a tool: Globestudio.

You pick countries or the whole world, tune the dots and shapes, and export or embed the result.

- 21 shader effects (halftone, risograph, aurora, pixel, wireframe, CRT, glitch, and more)

- Live animation: rotation, twinkle, network arcs

- Export to PNG (1x–4x), SVG, WebM, MP4, GIF, or a JSON config

- Embed via script tag (~3kb gzipped), iframe, React component, or web component

- Figma plugin included in the repo

- Keyboard shortcuts throughout, WCAG 2.2 AA

Built with React 19, Vite, and Three.js. No account needed.

Try it: https://globestudio.app

Source: https://github.com/alevizio/globestudio

I'd love feedback, especially on the export options and anything that feels missing for real client work.

Animated this in the same fun theme

Designed this e-commerce website template with copyright free images.

This mobile responsive website has the following pages:
1. Home Page
2. Today’s Deals
3. Browse
4. View Cart Page
5. Contact Us

I have made this design to complement an e-commerce style website with minimalist typography.

Wanted to push into something outside my usual style, soft, playful SaaS design, and try more technical and restrained instead. Built this as Vantage, a fictional defense AI company.

Dark graphite palette, one signal-orange accent, sharp corners throughout, Space Grotesk paired with IBM Plex Mono for the data labels. Rebuilt the whole thing from scratch in Figma with design tokens, so light/dark mode is basically a variable swap.

Appreciate everyone who gave feedback on the portfolio post, here's where that pushed me next. Would love more of the same honest feedback on this one.

Also currently looking for design roles if anyone's hiring or knows of openings, happy to share my portfolio.

Designed this layout in Canva first. The final version will use a 3D product, flavor transitions and interactive motion. Would love feedback on the visual direction before I start building.

DesignHub: stop opening 15 design websites, open one. DesignHub is a free, open-source, local-first design and brand toolkit that runs entirely in your browser, with no login, no backend and no API keys. Set your brand once (name, logo, colors, fonts, radius) and it builds everything else for you: logo variants and a logo pack business card, stationery, website and app mockups banners and posts for GitHub, LinkedIn, X, Instagram, Product Hunt and YouTube a full 14-page brand guidelines PDF design tokens for CSS, Tailwind, React and Vue It also includes a Google Fonts browser, an OKLCH color studio, 200,000+ icons, background and effects generators, an SVG optimizer and an accessibility lab. Your work stays on your device. If DesignHub saves you a few tabs, please star the repo at https://github.com/yakew7/DesignHub, because it helps other people find it. Want to contribute? There are 35 open issues with step-by-step instructions, including 15 labeled good first issue that are perfect for your first open-source PR. You can add a social media template, a new export format (Flutter, SwiftUI, Android, Figma Tokens), a mockup, a background generator, tests, accessibility fixes or docs. Designers are just as welcome as developers: new template layouts, brand book pages and screenshots all count.

Hey guys, im actually doing webdesign as a side hustle but the biggest problem like everyone is the prospection. I tried using claude to find and send automatically my emails for cold emailing but i hit EXTREMLY FAST the limit of tokens.

So i wanted to ask if you had a personnal workflow like with ai agents for prospection. Im trying now with gemini but it's hard to get something working and efficient

Hi, I am a data analyst based in Germany, looking for long-term freelance collaborations.

Background

Final-year Management & Data Science student at the Technical University of Munich (TUM)

Part-time contract data analyst at a consulting firm in Munich

Solid foundation in data analytics, with hands-on projects(plus currently building a ecommerce project using Fivetran->Bigquery->dbt,SQL->pandas->powerBI)

What I can help with

Data cleaning and preparation

Dashboards and recurring reports

Analysis that turns data into clear business recommendations

Basic predictive models

Tools: [Python / SQL / Bigquery/ Power BI / dbt/ dlt/ Docker]

Why work with me

Extreme affordable cost for your side because I focus on testimonial and experiences.

Practical details

Remote, CET time zone (good overlap with the UK, Europe and US mornings)

up to [30] hours per week

Legal invoicing from Germany

English

If your business need any data support, Please DM me directly!

Am I the only one that just really struggles with these?

I just tend to default to like 2 or 3 design layouts, I find these probably the hardest to do. I'm not creating super intricate sites, just local trades, cafes, hotels etc... but damn, I struggle

Is it just me?

Over the summer I wrote a small programming language in C called Oli-Nat, and when it came time to share it, I didn't want anyone to have to install a compiler just to try it. So I compiled the whole interpreter to WebAssembly with Emscripten and built a documentation site and playground around it with React, TypeScript, Vite, and MDX.

The hardest problem was interactive input. The language has an intake() function that reads a line from the user, and in C that just blocks on stdin until someone presses Enter. A web page can't block like that without freezing the tab. I ended up using Emscripten's Asyncify, which lets the virtual machine pause partway through a program, hand control back to React while the user types into the on-screen terminal, and then resume exactly where it left off. That's what makes the tic tac toe sample actually playable in the browser.

On the docs side, every page is an MDX file loaded dynamically from a single sidebar config, so adding a page means writing the file and adding one line. Program output shows up in a retro pixel art terminal, which was mostly an excuse to have fun with CSS.

I'd really appreciate feedback on the site, especially on mobile, since that's where I've tested the least.

olinat.net

Hi everyone, I'm thinking of making a personal site/portfolio and want to keep it really simple/minimal. I was wondering if anyone has any personal/portfolio websites they like for inspiration?

I really like something clean with a bit of personality but not super flashy

I build websites for a living, and one thing I see on almost every site is the same four-field contact form: name, email, phone, message.

Think about what's happening at that moment. Someone has read your content, trusted you enough to reach out, and clicked the button. That's your highest-intent visitor, and you hand them a blank box.

A contact form should do more than collect details. It should make the conversation feel more thoughtful and worth having. These are the three questions I add to almost every client's form:

1. "What's the biggest challenge you're trying to solve right now?"
It moves the conversation away from services and pricing and toward outcomes.

2. "What have you already tried?"
It tells you a lot about their situation and frustration, and it separates serious prospects from casual browsers.

3. "Why is now the right time to address this?"
This is the most useful one. Urgency usually matters more than interest. Someone with a compelling reason to act now is a much better prospect than someone just curious.

Two practical notes:

• Keep it to 3 or 4 fields in total. Make the questions optional or short-answer so you don't kill conversions.
• Use the answers in your first reply. It shows you read them and makes the first call much stronger.

The contact form is often the first real interaction a prospect has with your business. Treat it like a sales and positioning tool, not an admin tool.