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Your website shouldn’t just look good. It needs to perform under pressure.
One of the biggest mistakes founders make is hiring a "page builder" instead of a technical architect. Dragging and dropping templates is easy. Building a scalable digital ecosystem is not.
When a website relies on bloated plugins and messy architecture, you get 5-second load times, broken mobile layouts, and lost revenue.
Here is my baseline standard for every custom build:
Lean Architecture: Custom HTML/CSS/Liquid where it counts, minimizing third-party bloat.
Speed Engineering: Strict asset compression (WebP/WebM) to ensure sub-3-second load times.
Future-Proof CMS: A backend that is locked down and easy for your internal team to manage without breaking the frontend layout.
Whether we are building in WordPress, Framer, or Shopify, the infrastructure matters just as much as the UI.
🚀 I am open to projects. If you have a complex migration or a custom build on the horizon, let’s talk architecture.
@Mohd Kaif The locked-down CMS point is often overlooked. Do you pair WebP/WebM compression with performance budgets to keep WordPress and Shopify builds under three seconds over time?
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So here’s my little corner of the internet, a home for my creative work, curiosities, rabbit holes, creative detours, and things I make simply because they amuse me hehe 🧡
I LOVE ITTTT GIRLLLL
Designed the landing page UI for Agent OS — a next-generation AI platform that helps art directors, designers, and studios streamline their generative workflows.
B2B AI tools often fall into the same trap — they look like overly complex, highly technical dashboards. The goal was to build an interface that actually appeals to creative professionals, balancing advanced AI capabilities with a premium, highly aesthetic visual language.
An editorial art direction that blends modern sans-serif fonts with elegant serif italics, paired with striking, organic floral visuals. I used a glassmorphic chat overlay to showcase the AI's prompt-to-image generation feature directly in context. It proves that generative tools can feel deeply human, inspiring, and beautiful rather than purely functional.
What's in the interface:
— Contextual glassmorphic chat overlay
— High-contrast editorial typography system
— Seamless blend of organic photography and precise UI elements
— Clean, conversion-optimized top navigation
The process:
— Midjourney: Generated the vivid, high-fashion floral photography and campaign assets.
— Jitter:Crafted the smooth UI motion and interactions for the floating chat interface.
— Figma: Designed the entire layout, typography, and UI system.
A case in making artificial intelligence feel like a creative partner, not just a software tool.
stunning work, the animations flow so well!
Building my own product, I keep doing the exact thing I warn founders about.
Made a splash animation I loved. Watched it on a real device and it dragged. Told founders a hundred times: the first impression is a budget you spend in two seconds.
The advice I give for a living is the advice I have to force myself to take.
Is that the real preview? So brrright! 😉