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5 Claude Skills That Fix Claude’s Ugly UI (AI Web Design)

If you must build your website with AI, at least make it look good

8 min readSep 19, 2026

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I’m not in the mood to sugarcoat this, so I’ll just say it…

Claude sucks at building websites.

Sure, Anthropic’s AI wunderkind can hand you working code within minutes. But it’ll just as likely hand you a website that looks like every SaaS website from the past five years.

But that’s the trade-off when you build with AI.

The code works, but the design is basic and forgettable.

But that was before I found 5 skills to pair with Claude that turn generic AI-built websites into Awwwards-level UIs.

TasteSkill: Force Claude to Follow UI Design Rules

My biggest beef with AI web design is that “make it look nice” means absolutely nothing to a model.

Heck, I’m a designer myself, and those words mean nothing to me.

AI needs rules.

TasteSkill, built by developer Leon Lin (lexnlin), calls itself “The Anti-Slop Frontend Framework.” Instead of vague instructions, it gives Claude a process.

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