I'm thinking of building a simple idea which would let users effectively browse different themes and UI styles. …It would have some selectors on the left, and it would just display different styles that you can select that then would show websites with that style, and then it would give you a text prompt that you could copy to your agent to ask certain things in a certain style.

So if I was building this website now and I potentially have an idea for what the website style should look like, I would go to this website and pick which one I'd like the look of. I might be rounded corners. I might be no radius. There might be drop shadows. No drop shadows. Menu accents. And obviously there's things like themes. I don't know how to think about what everything would be in one place. …is it a design system, a design system picker. And then… how do we then either find or generate a bunch of different websites with that style? …whether it would be better that we just generate a bunch of them.

it's quite confusing for a non-technical person… that just ends up with this default style that agents pick, and then it's quite hard to then iterate on that style. So let's discuss this.

spawn a claude fable 5.1 high subagent to think about what we're trying to do.

I'm still unsure on what should happen. The way I'm looking at it or thinking about this is I'm trying to get a set of instructions that I would take to my agent's MD to reproduce styles in a certain way, or it could be that I want to design some website that I've got an idea for in a different way, and I want a different theme, buttons, and all the rest of it. So my initial thinking was if we have a grid of many different generated styles, that would be good to be able to look through and say, "Okay, I'm going to go off this one." This is the base of where I'm going to start. But then I'd want to potentially tweak it and have different corner radius, different shadows, palettes, fonts, different font weights throughout lots of different things like that.

The prompt is important, but it's not the main thing. The main thing you want to do is see the thing visually, and then the copy prompt button is all we really need.

The user is trying to look at what does the website and the visual look like. Can I tweak it? To make it look like how I want it to look and then from there I can copy the prompt and send that into my agent.

So v8 is currently my front runner. I guess some things I'm seeing when I load it.

When I use AI to generate anything and I don't really give it any specific instructions, it always comes out with these boilerplate templates that AI has been trained on to produce things.

Because what I'm trying to do here is say I'm thinking about an idea. Okay, I've got an idea that I want to pull out all of the archives of annual reports for public companies that are all in the AI data semiconductor chip space. If that was an idea I had, what I want to do in this style picker is figure out a design system, a design style for what my agent could then make variations of for that idea. I might have the idea before I go to the style picker, I might have the idea after I go to the style picker, and I might use the style picker to just pick. These are the typical sets of instructions that I give to an agent anytime I want to design anything that is a simple site. Get a prototype up, have a look at a few different versions, feel out the idea before I even start working on anything.

So I don't know if I'm really building on the right thing or not, and I genuinely do not know. I'm not saying I do or don't.

On one hand, yes, this is what I would want, but on the other hand, it feels quite flat and not enough variety or something. All the controls aren’t enough to really see a difference. Spawn an Opus 5 subagent to do a critical critique of what this tool does.

The purpose is for a non-technical person who is thinking about some ideas, or they are thinking about generating their own unique or very specific doesn’t need to be unique, but their own style of sites and tools and things that they want to build on the web, and they use this tool in order to help them understand what visual that they want that looks and feels like what they want to produce, which then in turn gives them the prompt that they can then give as their agent instructions to consistently produce designs that look like this page. It needs to be really intuitive and easy to use.

You should be able to feel like you could be on this site almost forever, generating new random ideas all the time that mix different styles and components and all the rest of it. But equally, you should be able to get to something that you are happy with and you like the look of in as quick a time as possible.

This tool still doesn’t feel right to me. I’m not sure why. I don’t know whether it feels like there’s too many sites with not enough variation. It’s just something that I can’t quite use the site to find a style that I like to then use.

Another option is: is there a definitive list of words, design vocabulary, if you will, that would help to understand what a style picker type could look like? So obviously there’s editorial, geo tone, brutalist, swiss, all of these kinds of words. How many are they and how many categories do they fit in?

So by a category I might mean the layout could be a tool or data display or something, or maybe it’s a grid or maybe something else. There’s obviously so many different ways you can lay out a page, style it. I’m just trying to think about a really good way to have text and the visual in one place so that a user could see the text and the visual together so they would know what to ask for when talking to agents.

What would take this site up 10x?

make a plan, write briefs for subagents to complete the tasks, give very specific design details and verification steps - agents must view their work. spawn codex gpt luna high subagents. you orchestrate. parallelise the tasks, you have up to 20 concurrent subagents available. we should probably have a design.md for this site first to save you briefing the same subagents with that? if you think anything else like that would be helpful for the subagents, you can create a file.

Our shuffle and preview my style mechanism is just awful. I don’t feel like as I’m shuffling I’m going through and seeing genuinely different layouts, mixing up all the different types of styles and elements we’ve got on our page to find something that I like or would want to potentially copy the prompt and do it.

what we’re trying to show here is like shuffle to generate a new version of a landing page or website, a single page site that you can get a template for a build you want to do, then or potentially a build, like several bills you want to do in a certain style, so they could look very different. It could be a data project, it could be a personal website, it could be a news feed, it could be like all sorts of weird and wonderful things, which I think is part of the problem, but also like part of our opportunity here. And we just need to make this like a thousand times better. So what do you recommend we do?

can we publish this to bensbites.com/design-words ? via here.now, even tho bensbites.com is on cloudflare thats what i want this renamed to 'design words', update it.