At my agency we use ai tools daily but it’s very important to still design some of the sections by hand Here is the list of things I’d avoid if you don’t want your website look cheap. 1. Purple-to-blue gradients. Especially on the headline text or big blurry blobs in the background. 2. The little pill badge above the hero headline. You know the one, "✨ Now with AI" sitting right on top of a centered headline. 3. Three identical feature cards in a row. Same icon style, same size, same three lines of text. Every AI site has this section. 4. Inter or the same default sans-serif everywhere. 5. Glassmorphism on everything. Frosted cards with soft borders and glow, even when it doesn't fit the brand at all. 6. Every section fades up the same way. Same animation, same timing, same delay. Real motion design has rhythm - some things should move slow, some fast, some not at all. 7. Perfectly even spacing. Every section is the same height with the same padding. It feels "correct" but flat, no breathing moments, no tension. 8. Copy that sounds like AI. "Unlock the power of...", "Elevate your...", "Fast. Simple. Powerful." And lots of long dashes everywhere 😅 9. Generic bento grids. Boxes just for the sake of boxes, with nothing actually telling a story. 10. Dark mode with neon glow. Looks cool for a second, then looks like a template. 11. Random cursive fonts. A script font dropped into one word of the headline to make it look "fancy" or "elegant." When it's not part of a real type system, it looks vibe coded right away. If a brand uses script, it needs a reason, and it has to be paired and sized with intention.

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First of all, personally I hate long courses that give you no practical advice. I really tried my best to put the actual client work, actual examples, and real builds here. Second of all, there are millions of courses on Figma and Claude already, so I tried to make this course different by actually teaching you how to create scroll-stopping animations and ideas versus boring ones like a flying sandwich or animated soda drink parallax. Third, everybody's websites look the same, especially when done with Claude designs, so I've added practical tools on how to avoid that look. What's inside: Your creative input diet. Where I actually pull from, and why most people's references are the reason their work looks the same as everyone else's. Why websites look cheap. The specific, nameable decisions that give it away. Once you can see them you can't unsee them. Breaking the rules on purpose. One break per page. It only reads as intentional when everything around it is controlled. Motion design. GSAP and ScrollTrigger, game feel, and how I use Claude as a coding partner so the motion work doesn't stall on syntax. Full build walkthroughs. A 3D butterfly and a Buddha temple, start to finish. Two real site builds, recorded. Not demos. Actual client work, actual decisions, actual moments where I changed my mind. Optimization. Making it fast without gutting the thing you built. Plus my complete tech stack. Every tool, what I use it for, and what I've stopped using. And the part nobody's teaching: how to make your work not look AI-generated. Everyone has the same tools now. The output all looks the same. The difference is taste, and taste is learnable.

Hi everyone. I finished the course and decided to try the method right away. I would love your eyes on it. Willka is a fictional eco-lodge on the Bolivian altiplano. Two pods and a tour. The film is the page: the gate at dawn, the sun blinding you, an orbit around the lodge, a walk to the door, and then the salt fields. A hummingbird rides the whole route as a three.js layer over the frames. Every camera move was created in Blender first, then generated on Seedance, and the stills came from Midjourney. Link: [willka-spectralmoon.netlify.app] (desktop first, phone second) One question I keep going back and forth on. Right now there are two rest points where the film freezes and a card sits on it, plus one page section with glass cards that slide over the film before the salt. I was tempted to add a wide section of plain text, or white cards, so it reads more like a normal website. My worry is that it would cut the flow. How do you handle information on sites like this without breaking the spell? Any honest feedback on the scroll feel is very welcome too. The website is far from done, but I just wanted to show what I've done and get some feedback :D

I have developed this scene based on a couple of images I generated with Higgsfield :) What you see online about these is not entirely true. You can not one prompt these scenes. Unless you prepare a whole .md spec and call it one-prompting :))) It took me 4 hours to generate these 2 versions that are still pretty raw in my opinion. around 10 prompts each and still far from perfect. But I am not complaining - this is definitely impressive. 2 scenes, one made in Three.js and another made in Blender entirely 3D. Have you already tried Astra?