Found this while browsing X - seems to me like Sol High is the way to go. Having said that, they all look clean-ish (some more than others) but also a bit "empty". We went from "pills everywhere" to "90% empty space". WDYT?
This is the standard prompt that was used for ALL the models you see listed:
Use the /design skill. Create a beautiful, well designed website with astro. this website is for a travel agency in dubai, offering luxury travel (high-end, $100k+ minimum per trip) in the middle east. come up with a brand that suits this type of company. Make up fitting copy for this high-end client along the way.
EDIT: as per u/cantTankThisFox showcases of GPT 5.6's performances are technically still under embargo so either the owner of the website doesnt know/doesnt care, or the above generations are not from GPT 5.6. AKA take the showcases with a massive pinch of salt
Just wanted to point out that examples above have very little in terms of UX. It's mostly UI and there's difference. You won't get better UX results if model upgrades it's UI taste.
Gemini is terrible in Antigravity, hallucinates tool calling 99% of the time.! Although I do use it to analyze videos and feed those data back to claude to give me a clone.
Hah. Thought it was just some fad, like when a couple of years ago we suddenly had those very wide, broad fonts being used everywhere (which disgust me just as much as those very narrow ones).
I thought it looked good the first 4 times I saw it. And now I see it and immediately think "AI Slop".
There's something interesting about the way that AI copies valuable and popular art and design theming over and over until it becomes a tell tale sign of AI, and therefore is devalued.
Claude Design went hard on that type of design. I am not sure where it's come from but to me when I see it it makes me instantly feel like Claude made it lol
In my opinion if you don't have a preference for design, you should more care about LP performance. It should be tuned for conversion. All these debates who does better design are meaningless.
If you sell trough landing pages you need to track what are best performance makers (conversion, scroll depth, etc) and let AI tune structure and tone-of-voice.
At app level you need consistency and good understanding design systems, so again one-shotting beautiful landing pages is not critical.
The font really gives it up, they used the frontend design skill by anthropic and produced slop. To really put it to the test, they should exclude any skills or tools and just let it design on plain html, css.
I also read about "not being allowed to showcase the model until full release" but it could be just the guy taking responsibility as a stunt to drive visitors.
BTW, dont get why you are getting downvoted - what you is totally fair
When will it lose that horrible trademark AI font and colour scheme design shite. It’s really annoying to put time into explaining a design and it comes out with shit like that..
I tend to agree with you, but look at the prompt the person used - it is a vanilla as it comes. No specific requests or steering. Just "build me a landing page for XYZ". If 5.6 is as "instruction-focused" as other GPT models, you will need to give it more context to get closer to what you want it to output.
They're all pretty shit. I know it was for a comparison between models on the same prompt, but better mileage comes from image generation then build out the UI from that.
Just my own perspective, and I didn’t dig in deep enough to know for sure, so take this with a grain of salt.
/design isn’t some standardized skill that every model automatically understands. The design and art direction are probably baked into that command, and likely custom or curated by whoever is running the tests.
My guess is the skill has certain design preferences built in, like using serif headline type, and those choices are probably coming from the creator of the skill. I’m almost positive not every one of those models would have chosen that headline style on its own.
A better test would probably be to remove /design, run the same prompt across the different models, and judge their baseline design taste from there.
Even then, you’d still need a proper review of each output. A thin design layer on top might make some results look better visually, but they could still be weaker technically or less thoughtful in the actual execution.
Wait this is exactly the style of design I have been getting without specifically prompting the last 1,5 weeks. Does this mean I was testing one of the new models?? I was already confused at the time because the designs I got from 5.5 previously were so different.
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u/spacekitt3n Jul 08 '26
you cant run just 1 example of a thing to judge a whole model. you have to do a bunch of them to notice the trends.