A portfolio is a product, so I wrote a PRD for mine with guardrails and an hint of taste from my ...

A portfolio is a product, so I wrote a PRD for mine with guardrails and an hint of taste from my ...A portfolio is a product, so I wrote a PRD for mine with guardrails and an hint of taste from my ...

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Adewale Aloba

• Jul 25

A portfolio is a product, so I wrote a PRD for mine with guardrails and an hint of taste from my experience as a designer.

I specced it the way I'd spec a client product, designed v1 on figma then built it with Claude and then iterated to v4. Every design decision is mine, and every version that missed the spec got thrown out.

Here's what I think the real shift is. A designer who can specify precisely can now take something from idea to production-grade alone. Not a prototype. Not a screenshot that collapses at 375px. The build.

And the scarce skill in that isn't prompting. It's knowing exactly what good looks like and refusing everything that isn't it ,at every width, in every state, through every transition.

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Althea Nguyen

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• Jul 26

Designing a table lamp inspired by Vietnamese “áo dài” and “nón lá” with @Envato at the centre of my workflow.

Starting from a black-and-white sketch, I built the lamp's ceramic base and rice-paper shade using Envato's AI toolkit, tagging reference materials directly so AI wasn't guessing at textures it can't always read from an image alone.

AI was great at generating options. It was not great at knowing which option was right; I rejected a full batch that technically worked but lost the silhouette I actually wanted, and hand-retouched a detail (the finial) that AI kept leaving unfinished.

The bigger call AI couldn't make: timing this launch to back-to-school season in Vietnam, when áo dài comes back out. That's not a style choice; it's a commercial one.

See the full process and the part AI couldn't do in the VIDEO below. 👇

#envatochallenge @envato