Small tip for web design - ask for a mockup first

I know close to nothing about AI or web design, so take this with a grain of salt, but it has worked for my use case. I have been working on a little, humble website/app for personal use and have gone through multiple iterations of different appearances and visual hierarchies without being too happy with the results. Last time, once I had defined the color palette and the standardized look of buttons and forms, as well as their expected behavior, I asked Sol to implement those, section by section. And it looked like crap. So instead of asking it to implement everything directly, I asked it to first generate a mockup image of each section, one by one. Then I asked it to implement them to look as close as possible to the mockups it had generated itself. The difference was huge. I don't know how it works. I would have imagined there shouldn't be this much of a difference between asking the AI to do something and asking it to show me how it should be done, then copying what it itself gave me as an answer lol