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Menus don't have to just appear.
Built a GSAP-powered mega menu with layered color slides that wipe in sequence before the content drops. Smooth open/close toggle, every layer timed to feel deliberate.
That split-second choreography? That's what makes an interface feel alive.
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First Row Only — My Human by Design Entry
For the #EnvatoChallenge, I wanted to test the Human by Design theme rather than simply talk about it. In a world where AI and asset libraries offer almost unlimited options, I wanted to see whether removing most of those choices would make human judgment more visible.
If chance decided what I searched for and the first row limited what I could use, could I still turn those ingredients into something intentional?
That question became First Row Only. Four random words decided what I searched for, and every asset had to come from the first row. I could reroll, but only all four words together. Once I accepted a set, it was locked. The constraint removed the safety net of searching for the perfect assets. It forced me to recognize potential, make tradeoffs, and turn a random combination into a coherent design. I built a simple Chrome extension to keep the process honest.
On the fifth draw, I got FESTIVAL for the photo, TEXTURE for the graphic, SOFT SERIF for the font, and HERO as the poster word. The font direction wasn’t what I wanted, but the other ingredients had too much potential to ignore.
My Human by Design moment was choosing to build the base image myself. ImageGen could have produced a finished poster faster, and possibly even a more polished design than I could build on my own. But this wasn’t about outperforming AI. I wanted to own the typography, composition, and message, then let VideoGen extend my design into motion. Finally, I used SoundGen to complete the animation with a five-second festival sound.
Choosing the assets with the most potential, deciding what to create myself, and knowing where AI could take it further—that’s Human by Design.
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