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Side project from last year exploring storytelling, motion and WebGL in honor of Kentarō Miura's 4th death anniversary .
Into the Heart of Darkness is a digital booklet/editorial experience exploring the myth, violence, and legacy of Kentarō Miura’s Berserk — a cult manga that shaped a generation about a cursed mercenary locked in battle with fate, demons, and despair.
Live: https://berserk-heart-of-darkness.quentinbrohan.fr/
Note: Some NSFW content (art consistent with Berserk's tone)!
Desktop-only experience!
Best viewed on Chrome or Firefox.
Minimum: 1280×1024p | Recommended: 1920×1080p or 1920×1440p.
Epic work!
REHEARSAL: The Room Has No Chalk
Some conversations stay with us for days before they ever happen.
We replay the possible replies.
We soften what we need to say.
We search for the perfect sentence until the moment passes.
As an introvert, I know that feeling well.
So I designed REHEARSAL, a preparation room for difficult real-world conversations.
Most AI tools try to write the sentence for you.
REHEARSAL refuses.
You write the reply you are afraid to hear.
You write your first, instinctive response.
You identify the reflex behind it.
The room contributes one structural constraint not a replacement sentence.
Then you write again, entirely in your own words, and say it out loud.
The central rule is simple:
You write both sides. This room never writes for you.
The visual world is built around the idea of The Black Floor: one person draws both sides of the conversation, while the room is only allowed to mark a limit.
No chatbot.
No generated dialogue.
No emotional score.
No simulated person on the other side.
Because the real conversation does not happen inside the product.
Practice here. Speak there.
Designed and iterated in Flowstep, then developed into a working React experience.
Live experience:
https://rehearsal-psi.vercel.app
#Flowstep #ProductDesign #UXDesign #InteractionDesign
This sounds like a powerful way to gain confidence in our conversations; how did the concept of The Black Floor come about?
UI Factory — The Alert Component
I've been building interfaces for a while now. And for most of that time, I did what everyone does — reached for a library, dropped in a component, tweaked the colors, shipped it. Job done.
But I kept noticing something. No matter how polished the product, the UI always felt borrowed. Like you could see the seams of whatever design system was underneath. Everything started looking the same.
So I decided to start building my own things from scratch. No templates, no defaults. The rule I set for myself: every component has to have its own identity. Its own material, its own physics, its own personality. A notification alert shouldn't feel anything like a pricing card. A dock shouldn't feel like a modal. Each one is its own experiment.
This alert component was the first one I finished. I wanted it to feel physical — like something you could reach into the screen and peel off. That drove every decision: the shadows, the spring physics, the way the stack fans out when you hover it, the way each card exits with a little spin. Nothing about it is accidental.
But claymorphism is just one direction. The library I'm building will go everywhere — glass, depth, brutalism, motion-first, 3D. The point was never an aesthetic. The point is that UI can feel crafted instead of assembled.
I'm in the early stages of building my own UI component library. If this work gets traction, the plan is to open-source the full code so designers and developers can use these in their own products. Every component ships with its own philosophy — no two will feel the same.
This is just the beginning. Follow along.
→ Try it yourself: https://ui-factory-zeta.vercel.app/notification-stack
Stack: React 19 · Next.js 15 · Framer Motion · TypeScript
#SoftwareArchitecture #SystemDesign #FullStack #SaaS #AIEngineering #DistributedSystems #React #PostgreSQL #NodeJS #Python #ProductEngineering #WebDevelopment
The spring physics and layer depth look incredible in action! Crafting components from scratch with true physical personality beats cookie-cutter UI libraries every single time. Awesome work!