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My cousin recently graduated from fashion design school and showed me one of her sketches. Instead of imagining what the final dress might look like, I decided to test something.
I took her hand-drawn concept and used AI to visualize it as a finished garment, complete with editorial-quality imagery and an influencer-style video.
What started as pen on paper became a realistic fashion campaign.
It's exciting to think about what this means for designers:
Faster concept visualization
Better client presentations
Early-stage campaign development before production begins
The sketch wasn't replaced. It became the foundation. It helped her have a vivid image of what the dress would look like and got sales before even making it.
If you were the designer, would you consider this helpful for your creative process or does AI take away some of the magic?
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One of my recent favorite projects was a full design cycle for Telephone AI —
brand identity, website, industry pages, and the platform itself.
AI integrated into every step of the process.
Case study is still coming 👀
But working on that project reminded me of what I actually love most
about early-stage startups: being in on it early.
Researching a new market, figuring out who the real user is,
what they need, what they've never had before —
and laying the right foundation from day one
instead of fixing it later.
Best practices from MVP. Not retrofitted after.
Here's what that process looks like for me now:
↳ Claude Projects — all the context in one place:
call transcripts, competitor research, personas,
feature priorities for MVP and what-can-wait
↳ Claude Code — structure, interactions,
clickable logic tested before Figma even opens.
Design system with tokens built from the start.
↳ Figma MCP — moved there for customization
and a proper clickable prototype the client can actually walk through
From idea to something real to click —
without weeks of "give us time to think."
#ProductDesign #StartupDesign #AIWorkflow #UXDesign #Figma #ClaudeCode
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These banner ads we recently created blend AI generative creative with traditional motion design, built together in After Effects.
In most client project it still takes a motion designer to pull it together into something that ships.
Great
Memory Bank is a private family app designed to capture the small moments that usually get lost.
We take thousands of photos every year, but the little things often disappear: a note before a test, a flower picked on the way home from school, a funny photo of the family cat, or a simple “good luck” message from a parent.
Memory Bank gives families a shared space where they can add photos, notes, and emojis throughout the day. These contributions form a collaborative daily memory that lives on the home screen as a widget.
At midnight, the day’s memory is automatically captured as a Polaroid and saved to a family archive. Over time, families build a collection of memories together, one day at a time.
For this project, I wanted to experiment with a different design workflow.
Instead of starting in Figma, I used Codex and the Build-iOS-App workflow to generate a working Swift prototype first. My goal was to validate the interaction and product flow before investing time in visual design.
Once the concept felt promising, I used Figma MCP to bring the app screens into Figma, where I explored different visual directions, refined the user experience, and iterated on the overall concept.
I then used Figma Make to prototype key interactions and validate the experience before bringing those improvements back into the app.
Finally, I created the launch trailer and supporting assets using Hyperframes, Codex, and Figma MCP, allowing me to iterate on both the visual design and the story as the concept evolved.
The result was a workflow that felt much more fluid than the traditional path of Idea → Design → Prototype → Build.
Instead, the project evolved through a continuous loop of Idea → Prototype → Figma → Prototype → Launch.
Memory Bank started as a Makeathon experiment, but quickly became something I genuinely want to build for my own family.
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