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Pipeline view of an agentic fundraising prototype for an AI client built in Framer. Rendered in Ultramock.
I had Claude build out ~800 rows (~50 columns) of dummy contact data in supabase with varying degrees of lead enrichment and match scoring to simulate a live DB connection.
Really enjoying using Claude x Framer. Its truly a superpower for building simulation engines like this.
800 rows of dummy data for a proto, madness
AcreamStudio App Launch Video🎉
The Challenge
Work can quickly become fragmented and overwhelming. Constant tasks, notifications, and context switching often leave users feeling mentally overloaded and out of control.
The video needed to communicate that tension in a short amount of time, while clearly demonstrating how the app supports task organization, work planning, and mental wellbeing.
Creative Direction
The film uses a 3D keyboard as a visual metaphor for work-related pressure.
At the beginning, keycaps bounce, pile up, and move in irregular rhythms to create a sense of chaos, tension, and information overload. The visual then shifts into app UI animations and feature demonstrations, using a calmer and more structured motion language to create a strong contrast.
This transition from disorder to clarity helps the audience feel the app’s value rather than simply being told about it.
Solution
Used bouncing, shifting, and densely paced keycap movements to visualize workplace pressure and information overload
Integrated app UI into 3D scenes and transitions, making feature demonstrations part of the story
Built an emotional progression from chaos to clarity through pacing, composition, and motion curves
Created sound design to strengthen the tactile quality of the keyboard, rhythmic tension, and UI feedback
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Vestris — from ratified contract to closing-ready, on autopilot
Just wrapped one-week sprint designing the landing page for Vestris, a YC S26 startup automating mortgage title & closing work. Sharing the process because a few things about it were genuinely different from a typical SaaS landing page project.
The brief
Vestris automates the unglamorous middle of a real estate closing — chasing documents, prorating taxes, drafting closing disclosures, coordinating between lender/agents/title company. The founder wanted the site to feel "homey," not like enterprise software — because the buyers here are mom-and-pop title companies, not enterprise IT departments.
Process
2 hero concepts tested in parallel (a quieter parenthetical headline vs. a bold full-width one), each with copy variants, sent as a single comparison sheet rather than one "final" direction — let the founder react to real trade-offs instead of guessing what I meant.
Redesigned the site's core interactive block — an 11-step "how it works" breakdown — three separate times based on live feedback: first a desktop accordion, then a mobile-specific pass (accordions don't compress well under ~380px), then a full restructure into a 2×2 grid after the client flagged the original zig-zag layout for being "repetitive and too long to scroll."
The illustrated hero background (watercolor countryside, cottage) needed to dissolve into the brand's cream background at the edges — but a standard blur/gradient looked flat next to the painterly art style. Built a small custom tool (canvas + JS) that applies ordered Bayer dithering to fade the illustration into the background color pixel-by-pixel instead of blending — it reads as grain, not gradient, and matches the hand-painted texture instead of fighting it. Turned it into a reusable tool with adjustable fade area, blur radius, dot size, and a transparent-overlay export, so it's not a one-off script.
Figma for design, Framer for the build, custom canvas/JS tooling for the image-edge treatment, Midjourney for the base illustrations.
vestris.ai — live now.
I honestly clicked because I saw your name. The process was just as interesting as the final result.