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Bento reads best when the tiles vary in weight so the eye gets an anchor before it hits the dense cells; on a data-heavy dashboard like this, giving the pipeline card clear priority over the smaller metric tiles is what keeps it from feeling like a wall of equal boxes.
The fundraising pipeline card is such a clean way to surface deal stages at a glance. What was the trickiest part about keeping a bento layout readable once the dashboard got this data-dense?
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Asif Aleem please where do you design this amazing website?
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Architect of Chaos: Branding Cobalt Analytics for the Envato Challenge
AI has completely changed the creative landscape, but it hasn’t changed what makes a digital product functional. For the Envato Challenge, I set out to design the brand identity and UI concept for a B2B SaaS platform, Cobalt Analytics. The goal was to show the crucial difference between machine generation and human curation.
The Insight: The Azulejo Metaphor
Data analytics is often visually represented by clichéd glowing nodes and neon webs. I wanted a metaphor with history. I turned to Azulejo — traditional Portuguese ceramic tiles. Historically, the art of Azulejo was about taking thousands of fragmented, independent tiles and assembling them into one grand, coherent narrative. This is exactly what a predictive data platform does: it turns chaotic metrics into a clear system.
The Process: AI as the Miner, Human as the Filter
I started by feeding AI historical references of Azulejo tiles. The result? Absolutely stunning, yet completely unusable visual noise. AI generated beautiful chaos, but as a designer, I know that algorithms don't understand scalability, negative space, or modular grids.
The Extraction: I rejected 95% of the AI generations, extracting just one perfect geometric silhouette hidden in the noise.
The Clean-Up: I moved to Envato Elements to source mathematically perfect vector shapes and rebuilt the AI's concept into a clean, scalable brand mark.
The System (Figma): I established a strict modular Bento-grid, paired the complex geometry with a brutalist sans-serif typography, and built out the core UI dashboard widgets in Figma.
The Execution (Zero Photoshop): To bring the brand into the real world, I utilized Envato’s native mockup generator. I applied my designs directly to premium physical and digital mockups right inside Envato's browser tool—no Photoshop required. A completely streamlined, modern workflow.
The Result: Cobalt Analytics.
A brand identity that is mathematically precise, highly scalable, and ready for development. AI generated the noise, but human judgment built the system.
And for the brave souls, here is the link to the full Figma file. Fair warning: it’s a typical creative mess inside, you know how it is 😅
https://www.figma.com/design/5Du5Sjr7jCCZYNgH5Y9QtB/Envato-Challenge?node-id=17-2181&t=vap8tOu6fACNieNW-1
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Nice design! How did you generated the background image?
I set myself a challenge this month: learn Framer by building something real, not a tutorial file.
So I made SUMIKA, a concept site for an archive of beautiful Japanese houses. Part real estate listing, part travel journal.
The build:
Concept and art direction first. I wanted to avoid the soft beige minimalist look everyone reaches for with Japanese design and go bold instead, drawing from Japanese poster and print work. Sumi black, washi paper, a hot vermilion, gold hairlines, and oversized vertical kanji.
Then Framer. The whole thing runs on a CMS, so every house is a content entry and the detail pages build themselves from one template. Add a listing, its page exists.
Biggest takeaway: the CMS is where Framer earns it. Once the structure was right, adding houses took minutes instead of redesigning a page each time.
Concept project, built to learn. Photography via Unsplash.
Open to web design work. If you want a site that does not look like everyone else's, let's talk.
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