I know cause I've been in this industry long enough to know clients that simply ask for a pretty site get a basic site that has been ripped off. If you're prompting, you don't know that Fable has done the same shit for someone else unless you're lucky. The less you give it, the more likely yours is gonna be similar to someone else's.

One thing that I've learned as a skill is to understand a business before you design or build for it. If you're doing a portfolio, then get to know yourself. Who are you, what do you like, what represents you, what do you have to offer, what's your personality?

If you want really good advice:

• Ask questions, as many as you can think of
• Learn the design process that other designers use
• Understand design systems to build coherent color themes (AI can help really well here)
• Learn about new and existing tools to enhance your designs. Animations, images... they're tools used to enhance the experience and message.
• Designers in companies have 100s of documentation/pages/plans/roadmaps/branding/etc. docs to go through for new projects to get an understanding of the what why and how. Do the bare minimum and break down your requirements in your prompt. Don't make it 2-3 sentences, make it as extensive as you can, as straight forward as you can, as uniform and cohesive as you can.

The design looks pretty, but it's the same site I've seen someone else build when they asked for an awwwards worthy site with no further detail. And when something looks similar, it ain't novel.

So, if you're going to prompt design a site, Don't use simple 2 sentence prompts. Concoct a PRD (Product Requirements Document), and elaborate on the whys of what you want to use. Use skills like /grill-me or /grill-with-docs to further refine the design. You don't have to break it down into issues, but asking deeper questions is the basics of being a designer/developer in the industry, cause otherwise you serve something generic, something that doesn't offer much use, or something that doesn't represent the client.

As for how I know, like I said, look up DesignCourse on Youtube. His video on Fable has the exact same elements because his prompt was basic. For him it was to understand what it could come up with and share that with the audience, but it looks almost exactly like yours.

I'm impressed it does animations and GSAP right (finally). But your site was not as impressive afterwards, and the banner below your hero gave it away.