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I talk a lot about AI tools and visual design.
This isn't about that.
I joined 5 other designers to put together a course bundle focused on the skills that matter more now that production is faster:
- Decision-making
- Storyteller influence
- Strategic thinking.
The glue skills. The "taste" skills.
Grab it here until Jan 16:
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The tools I use to take a brand from first sketch to shipped, in 2026. 🔥
Pen and paper first, and the brief written back to you before I open anything.
Illustrator and InDesign for identity and print. Figma and Stitch for interfaces. Photoshop and Higgsfield for images. After Effects, Premiere Pro, Rive and Spline for motion and 3D. HTML, CSS, JS and Python, with an AI coding assistant, for builds.
✅ One rule across all of it: AI renders the context, never the mark. Your logo, type and layouts are drawn by hand.
What that means for you: one designer from the brief to the shipped files, so nothing gets lost between handoffs.
Need a brand, a product or a launch? My DMs are open. 💬
I just released FAR ENOUGH, a free Framer template for luxury travel. 🌴
Minimal on the surface, a lot of motion underneath:
→ an endless drag-to-explore masonry grid
→ a 3D Instagram carousel
→ a scroll-driven curtain gallery
→ an image trail that follows your cursor
→ light and dark mode with one click
10 pages, 4 CMS collections, fully responsive, with a reduced-motion fallback. Every animation is editable in the properties panel, no code needed.
Made for travel studios, villas, retreats and anyone who wants a site that feels far away in the best way.
Free on the Framer Marketplace: https://www.framer.com/marketplace/templates/far-enough/
Live preview: https://farenough.framer.website
#Framer #FramerTemplate #WebDesign #FreeTemplate
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From an idea to a working Figma plugin. 🎨🚀
I've been working on something exciting: Acquire Color, a Figma plugin that extracts colors from images and turns them into structured color systems.
The idea was simple, but bringing it to life has been a learning experience.
I used AI to help me build it, and along the way, I experienced a few ups and downs.
The challenges:
Getting AI to understand my exact vision.
Refining the UI when the initial results weren't what I wanted.
Figuring out how to structure primitive and semantic color systems.
Debugging, iterating, and rethinking certain parts of the experience.
The wins:
Turning my idea into a working prototype.
Exploring Figma plugin development.
Learning to collaborate with AI more intentionally.
Developing a clearer vision of what the product should become.
One thing I've learned is that building with AI doesn't mean everything happens automatically.
You still need to think through the problem, make decisions, guide the process, and refine the output.
I'm still improving Acquire Color, but seeing the idea take shape is a win in itself.
A little progress is still progress. And I'm enjoying the process of becoming a better designer and builder.
What has your experience been like building with AI?
#Contra #BuildInPublic #ProductDesign #Figma #AI
