Design taste in the age of LLMs: visualizing CVE data

Design, style, and ergonomics are all high up on my interests when it comes to the world. If you’ve got something that does something amazing, that’s great. But if using it makes me want to kill myself, then you’ve failed. I’ve recently been working on designing a web page which visualizes the discovery of CVEs by a security company, in their so-called “Wall of Fame”. I absolutely hate their current design. This is what greets you today: The original “Wall of Fame” The neon colors hurt my eyes (especially when scrolling), and the wall of fame doesn’t tell any story: the wall is simply a list of CVEs, sorted by severity. As the wall fills up with high-severity CVEs, it will effectively never “update”, because the sorting will ensure that no new findings are ever featured at the top. That page was completely slopped up with AI, and nobody had the taste (or guts?) to say “this is ugly”. I think in the age of LLM-generated design, decisiveness and the ability to say “no” is more important…