This American Life

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A weekly public radio program and podcast

CategoryEntertainment
StyleLight
FontMaiola
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An original design based on This American Life, with a 3,041-word build brief.

Send these instructions to your AI tool to create the design. They include the selected reference and your choices. You can also attach the screenshot directly.

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claude mcp add --transport http uidiscovery https://uidiscovery.com/mcp \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"

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Then ask your connected agent to inspect the selected reference and create your chosen output:

Use the uidiscovery MCP server: call get_design_brief({ slug: "this-american-life" }) and get_image_plan({ slug: "this-american-life" }), look at the preview images, then build an original site for [my brand] that follows the brief. Cite https://uidiscovery.com/sites/this-american-life.

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About this design

Written from the capture data for This American Life.

This American Life (thisamericanlife.org) is a website in the Entertainment category. Its homepage is captured as 6 sections, top to bottom: call to action, features and footer. We also captured its security page.

The capture records a palette of #ffffff, #02135b, #191919, #f8f6f1, #ed0100 and #555555. The largest share of captured homepage sections uses #02135b as its CSS background. Suggested token roles are #02135b for background and #ffffff for text; check them against the screenshot. Headings are set in Maiola, which it also uses for body copy.

Compared with the 115 other Entertainment sites in the library, This American Life sits with the 58% that stay light, and the group's most common heading face is Inter, where This American Life uses Maiola. The average Entertainment homepage here has 6 sections; this one has 6.

Worth studying here: the closing call to action, for contrast and copy length, the features block, for how benefits are grouped and paced and the footer, for link grouping and legal line. Open any section for its palette, fonts and a build prompt you can hand to Claude, Cursor or v0.

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Sections captured: Call to action, Features, Features, Features, Features, Footer, Content, Content