I'm running into a frustrating issue while building a project in Cursor.

[Amerm]

Hey everyone, I’m running into a frustrating issue while building a project in Cursor.

The site’s design looks like it’s straight out of the 70s — plain white background, black text, zero styling, and overall feels outdated and lifeless.

Every time I ask Cursor to improve the design, it says “design updated,” but when I check the site, literally nothing has changed. Even when I asked ChatGPT to generate a full page code snippet and replaced the page with it — still no visible difference.

Has anyone dealt with this before? Any solid fix to actually get modern, clean styles showing up?

[T1000]

Hi, could you explain a bit more what is happening and what you are trying to do?

How do you ask cursor to improve the design? What changes are you asking for?
Do you test the site locally? or on server?

Usually websites are updated locally, tested locally and then uploaded to server.

[Amerm]

Sure

I ask chat gpt. To write the prompts so its hight quality prompts

Second i ask chat gpt to ask Cursor to do some tests and it works usually is changes word or something meaning it’s working

But actually for the designs its not

And im running it locally

[deanrie]

Hey, which GPT model are you using? GPT models aren’t great at creating beautiful designs, but Claude is better. Try using that model.

Regarding unapplied changes, maybe it makes minimal ones. Do you also see any changes in the code?

[Cpyrighted]

You issue is primarily that you are not using a UI/UX design framework, you need to research UI frameworks, figure out what works for your project needs and implement a clear plan to create a consistent UI style like this…

This is a WIP but what I have acheived in a week using VUE + NaiveUI. You need a well thought out plan, to choose an appropriate UI framework for you programming language and project and to work step by step to create what you envision in your mind with clear prompting not just for the base first creation of your interface but making comprehensive individual changes to each and every aspect to meet your standards.

Anyway good luck on your UI discovery journey.