Design Styles Compared
Two comparisons, each on its own starting page: visual styles redesign a homepage, design systems an app page. Each page is redesigned once per anchor name, and each version comes from a separate Claude Opus 5.5 session that got the same prompt with only the name changed:
Redesign this website in the style of {ANCHOR}. Keep the content unchanged.
The sessions got the German original: "Gestalte diese Website im Stil von {ANKER} neu. Die Inhalte bleiben unverändert." No description, no reference images, one run per anchor, no rerolls; each session checked its own result in a browser, with one exception noted below. Each style tile links to its anchor.
One run shows what the name sets off, not the only possible result. Another run, or another model, will differ in the details.
Styles and rule sets: one homepage
The first tile is the original, rdmueller.github.io as of 28 October 2026. How these examples came about, and what stood out in each: A Design Style Is a Name Your LLM Already Knows (Ralf D. Müller, 29 October 2026). Material Design 3, Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines and the GOV.UK Design System are design systems, but their examples come from that run and stay here.
Refactoring UI and Bringhurst’s The Elements of Typographic Style are rule sets, not styles. Their tiles were added on 30 October 2026 with the same prompt, one run each, and show what the rules change on the same homepage: Bringhurst’s rules show in the type at first glance; Refactoring UI’s show more quietly, in hierarchy, spacing and colour. The Refactoring UI session checked its result in a browser; the Bringhurst session compared the text of every page with the original but does not say it looked at the result.
Design systems: one app page
Design systems are made for product interfaces. Their differences show in tables, status labels, page headers and density, and a homepage has little of that. So the design systems redesign an app page instead: the "Team members" settings page of a fictional admin console, written for this gallery in a deliberately plain style. The first tile is that page.
These sessions ran on 30 October 2026 in a cloud workspace without web access. For the screenshots, the fonts and stylesheets the pages request from Google Fonts and jsDelivr were served locally from the same npm packages; licensed fonts such as Segoe UI or Adobe Clean appear in their fallback.
