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Monday Survival Kit: AI Excuse Generator
We've all had that Monday morning where getting out of bed feels like the hardest task of the week.
This is a fun UI concept for an AI-powered Excuse Generator that creates believable, dramatic, or completely ridiculous excuses in seconds. It's designed as a parody app that doesn't take itself too seriously, while exploring bold typography, playful illustrations, and a retro-inspired visual style.
Sometimes the best product ideas aren't built to solve a huge business problem. They're built to make people laugh, start conversations, and remind us that great UX can also entertain.
A few favourites:
"My motivation is currently buffering."
"My alarm resigned this morning."
"I'm attending an emergency meeting with my pillow."
"My coffee requested a delayed start."
Would you download it for Monday mornings?
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→ SEERPEN: the deep one. A real 3D globe (Cesium) rendering 26 live/static intelligence layers, conflict zones, ship traffic, flight tracking, GPS jamming, orbital satellites, paired with a live news feed and a local-LLM "analyst" that reads the map context and can act on it through chat
→ STRATUM: locked for now. Select it, and the system denies you clearance and logs the attempt. A dead end on purpose.
Design-wise, the goal was to make it feel like a live system, not a mockup; every terminal readout, scan line, and boot log is actually animating in real time, not a static screenshot dressed up to look busy.
Designed fully in Figma, first run and perfected on a local server and moved to GitHub with some changes to able to fit the webpage format. It was built with React 19, TypeScript, Vite, Tailwind v4, Cesium, and a small Express backend aggregating real news and live layer data.
While I've FE skills, they were limited in most cases; I've tried a new MCP server system inside Figma, and with VSC and Claude, I was able to pull out my design, put more detailed meaning to it and run it fully with interactions. While I'm against the ML systems to some degree, my approach is to use that as a tool to solve my technical problems. And my design project became a fully functional project. I believe designers will evolve their mindset to create more valuable products with more extensive tool options.
Let me know what do you think =)
Full case study on Behance: https://lnkd.in/dNd_PRqu
Live demo: https://lnkd.in/d2cp9mcN
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Instead of building a platform for coaches or business creators, we worked with Shafqat Ali Khan Music – an online school dedicated to teaching the centuries-old tradition of classical South Asian vocal music.
The biggest challenge wasn't adding more features or making the design feel trendy. It was creating a website that respected the heritage behind the music while still providing a clear and intuitive experience for today's online students. Sometimes the best design is the one that quietly supports the content rather than trying to stand out.
We're especially happy that the client loved the final result – and even better, they've already seen an increase in course sales after launching the new website.
Projects like this are always a reminder that every audience is different, and good design starts with understanding the people you're designing for.
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