3 Ways to Build ACTUALLY Beautiful Websites Using Cursor AI

Let's be honest, your AI generated websites look terrible. And I know exactly why. You're going into cursor or claude and just typing make it beautiful or make it look professional, then wondering why you end up with the same boring generic designs that look like every other AI built site out there. The problem isn't the AI, it's how you're using it. Today, I'm going to show you three proven methods and some game-changing tricks that will completely elevate your websites and make them look absolutely stunning. So, jumping right into it, the first method

is to take a design that's already been made and clone it perfectly. Here's how it works. You need to extract a proper design profile from whatever you want to replicate. For example, I grabbed this random design. If I want to make a website, web app, or mobile app that looks exactly like this, I can ask any AI, claude, chat, GPT, whatever to create a JSON design system that extracts all the visual data from what I've provided. Then I give this JSON output to cursor and boom, consistent styling. The output should include the

style structure and I'll give the AI some autonomy to decide anything else that helps replicate this design perfectly. And here we have it. Our design system JSON file with all the data we need to replicate this design. Now let's actually test it out and see if it works. So here's what we did. We gave it a prompt to build a comprehensive educational dashboard with all the features we needed. Notice we didn't mention anything about design in the prompt itself. We just told it we needed the app in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript and to follow the design.json

file. This is that file. I pasted the JSON that Claude generated and told cursor to follow it. And look at what it created. This beautiful looking app that clearly matches our target design. We've got these clean notifications, an attractive layout that matches exactly what we were going for, and even this sleek navigation bar. The result, it cloned the design almost perfectly. This is the power of giving AI a proper design system instead of just saying make it pretty. So, method one was perfect when you had a design to copy.

But what if you want to create something completely original? Well, for that, I have this amazing website called Tweak CN. Basically, it lets you create your own perfect Shad CN UI setup from scratch. If you don't know what Shad CN UI is or you're not familiar with components, don't worry. I'll show examples that'll make the concept clear. When you visit this website and start customizing, you'll see this preview interface they've given us. On the left, you have options for customizing it however you want. For example, I'm in

the colors tab right now, and we can change the color to anything we want. You can see the color changing as I drag the slider. And that's just the primary color. We can also change the accent colors, base colors, and even the card colors. So, everything is completely customizable. And not only colors, but typography as well. We can change the fonts too. If we go into others, there are more options. One of them is shadow, which adjusts the shadow of the components. It completely gives you the ability to customize however you want. Let me show you. If you just shuffle these, you'll see the different types of

customizations and themes you can create. And if these are just the default options, imagine what you could design yourself. And this is just the cards tab. If we go to dashboard or mail tabs, there are more previews as well. It gives you everything including dark mode and light mode so you know how your app looks in both themes. If you like what you've created, go to the code tab, copy the code, paste it into an index.css file in your directory, just like method one. Then ask cursor to build your project from this file. Now, methods one and two were great for

getting the overall design and styling right. But here's method three, and this one's all about taking your apps to the next level with premium components. So, another way to make your websites or apps look really, really good, especially if you're making web apps with React, is by using React components, which honestly look amazing. For example, we have this library right here called React Bits, which gives you animated React components. I'm going to show you these components in a bit, and they look pretty awesome. But this isn't