I killed the header
The site had a standard navbar. I asked Claude to remove it. Here's what that decision looks like technically — and why you don't need a design background to make calls like this.
The site had a perfectly normal header.
White background. Logo on the left. Nav links on the right. Exactly what a website is supposed to look like. It appeared on every page, sat at the top of everything, scrolled with you and got a blur effect when you moved down the page.
It looked fine. It looked like every other site.
That was the problem.
I told Claude to remove it.
The decision took about ten seconds. The rationale took longer to articulate — and articulating it is the valuable part, because it's the kind of thing you can apply to anything you're building.
The rest is for supporters
Pay once, read everything — this post and whatever comes next.
What's inside
- →Why a separate header makes a site feel like a site and not a product
- →How the nav got absorbed into the hero — and why that changes the feel
- →The parallax gradient layer: three radial gradients, one animation, zero libraries
- →What Linear, Luma, and Resend do that most sites don't