You Decide
I gave Claude discretion on five design decisions at once. Here's how that went.
When I got to Phase 4 of this site (navigation and layout), Claude asked me a series of design questions. Nav link style. Mobile menu animation. Footer content. Content max-width. Header background treatment.
For five of them, I picked the same answer: "You decide."
It wasn't laziness. I genuinely didn't have a strong opinion on whether the mobile menu should slide in from the right or drop down from the header. Both work. Claude has context on the existing codebase, the design tokens, and the component patterns already in place. It can make a more informed call than me staring at a list of options.
The discussion log captured every decision with alternatives considered:
Claude: Nav link visual style?
Me: You decide.
Claude: Mobile menu open animation?
Me: You decide.
Claude: Content max-width, keep max-w-3xl or widen to max-w-5xl?
Me: You decide.
Where I did have opinions, I was specific. Semi-transparent header with backdrop-blur. Collapsing hybrid for mobile nav (inline when it fits, hamburger when it doesn't). Full-width header with centered content.
And when Claude asked about social links in the footer:
Me: Backlog this. I haven't set anything up yet.
No social accounts, no social links. Simple.
What worked about this
The whole discussion took maybe five minutes. Claude got the decisions it needed, I kept control of the things I cared about, and neither of us wasted time on choices that don't matter much. The nav looks fine. If I hate it later, I'll change it.