Design · beginner
Redesigning a personal website
Nadia rebuilds her own personal website with CodeYam and Claude Code, start to finish. A critique of the old site, a team brainstorm, four design directions to choose between, and everything that came up between going live and calling it done.
Lessons
- Lesson 1: Rebuilding a personal website with AIWhere the redesign starts, and why it is a rebuild of an existing site rather than a blank page.3:27
- Lesson 2: Brainstorming the redesign with the teamProduct, design and engineering talk through six early variants, and how to prompt your way out of stuck.14:40
- Lesson 3: A design critique of the existing siteDesigner Dani reviews the original site and picks out what to keep, what to cut, and what to try.3:33
- Lesson 4: Exploring four design directionsFour variants, the team's feedback, and the slow narrowing towards one direction.2:40
- Lesson 5: Going live on a custom domainLaunching to a spare domain first, adding a contact form, and what broke once it was live.3:42
- Lesson 6: Shipping the final siteFinal testing, using AI as a copy editor, and deciding when a site is good enough to ship.4:02