Creative Health NI Website Case Study: Building a shared channel for creative health activities in Northern Ireland using vibe coding

Creative Health NI (creativehealthni.com) is a website that logs and shares creative health activities, workshops, and events across Northern Ireland. It was not commissioned, tendered, or built by a development team. It was vibe coded: designed and built in conversation with an AI coding assistant by a non-programmer, working from domain knowledge of the sector, its audiences, and its needs.
This case study documents the build and its findings. Desk-based research for the AHRC Creative Communities Co-Lab Policy Network project (Creative Health Northern Ireland) identified a gap: activity across the sector was signposted in disparate ways, creating duplication, missed connections, and limited reach. The website was built in response, in advance of the project's engagement events, so that its usefulness could be gauged with practitioners, organisations, policy stakeholders, and people with lived experience, and their reactions fed into its iteration.
The case study describes the method and platform selection, the role of sector knowledge and design expertise in directing the tool, and what the build demonstrates about AI in the hands of non-experts: the barrier to creating digital infrastructure has moved from technical skill to clarity of purpose. It situates the work within community-driven approaches to AI, and reflects on impact: visibility creates access for the public, practitioners, referrers, and policy. The site is presented as a time-limited demonstrator, with an invitation to the sector to adopt the model post-project. Preservation arrangements, including web archiving and an archived record of the site, are set out in the document.