More than a year ago, I shared a post about how I set up a gallery with Hugo to share my illustrations and also to give the “Amazing Women in Tech” project its representative home.

I still love the gallery and the approach I took, but with the facelift of my website, I felt like it was time to also redo some things there.

It started with me thinking about what I wanted, then roughly two hours of Claude and me working through it together. I love playing around with design, but the fiddliness that comes with debugging is something I just didn’t have the capacity to deal with — which is also why I’d been postponing it for so long. That’s why I was even more excited to give it a try with Claude. For this purpose, I used Claude Code with Sonnet 4.6. My usual approach for a session like this is simple, but it works: I start with a critical review and let that shape the direction.

And this is what the (for now) final result looks like:

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In case you’re interested, here’s what I did:

1. In a new session, I opened the folder gallery.

2. I then used this prompt:

Critically review the gallery and make suggestions how to improve it. 
I want to use it to showcase my art but also the Amazing Women in Tech 
project to highlight both art and the people.

You could extend the prompt of course, but I wanted to give it a try and see what comes out of it. And that turned out to be an amazing part — what happened next felt like a pair-brainstorming session. Though the outputs are statistical tokens, they gave me a good starting point.

If the suggestions look good to you, just say so and Claude will proceed with implementing them. But this is not where it stops. While a few things were implemented successfully, new ideas kept popping up — aligning the design with my website, changing icons, adding different text, social icons, and more. What usually happens during projects like this (also when I work all by myself) is that I start a long to-do list of things I’d love to have implemented. The same thing happened here, but the difference was that I could immediately act on it. While I’ll admit I miss the research part a little, it’s also been an amazing feeling to just get things done (I still have painful memories of trying to implement a typing effect on my website — though that eureka moment of finally achieving it is hard to beat).

If you’re curious about the result, head over to my gallery and have a look. I’m really happy with how it turned out.