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The truth is out there—and data visualization is the lens that helps us find it. 🕵️♂️📈👽
Great data design doesn’t just look beautiful. It acts as a powerful tool to uncover hidden connections, investigate complex cases, and reveal stories that would otherwise stay buried in spreadsheet rows.
To show this in action, I created a personal project dedicated to the cult show 🛸 The X-Files. I analyzed how different screenwriters collaborated on individual episodes throughout the series and built an interactive visual explorer.
Check the online version to explorer the network of creative minds behind the show's iconic mysteries: https://yanouski.com/projects/xfiles-writers/
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Project Title:
TimeMap — Historical World Explorer
Short description:
TimeMap is an interactive historical world map explorer that lets you travel through time and space simultaneously. Select multiple cities and archaeological sites from different parts of the world and see what was happening at the exact same moment in history.
What I built:
An interactive web app where you can:
Search historical cities and archaeological sites
Compare up to 4 locations simultaneously across 5,000 years of history
Navigate through 7 historical eras via an interactive timeline
Filter by world region
Listen to era-appropriate ambient music
Explore a vintage cartographic map with wave ocean texture
How I used Google Stitch:
I started from a personal infographic I designed in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop about the Korean Peninsula. I extracted the visual DNA — warm cream palette, coral accents, serif typography — and brought it into Google Stitch to prototype the interface. Through multiple iterations in Stitch I designed the map layout, the side panel, the leader portrait, the timeline and the editorial aesthetic. Stitch was the bridge between my design vision and the final development in Claude Code.
Workflow:
Adobe Illustrator + Photoshop → Google Stitch → Claude Code
Project link:
https://timemap-explorer.netlify.app/
Feedback on Stitch:
Stitch is genuinely powerful for rapid UI prototyping. Iterating visually with prompts saved enormous time. The design consistency across iterations was impressive. Areas for improvement: handling complex SVG elements like world maps was challenging, and version history navigation could be more intuitive.
Very cool, the maps look awesome.
CONCEPT : CapCut Records is a reimagination of CapCut as a premium hip hop label, where each core feature of the app becomes a named character with a distinct role, personality and visual identity. AutoCap, Sync, Blank, Tempo, Gloss and Blueprint are the roster, each one a living representation of the tools creators use every day.
The brand retains CapCut's teal and black visual identity while translating it into the world of music, culture and creative expression. Built entirely using CapCut Design Studio's AI generation tools.
PROJECT INFORMATION:
Creator name: Ajiboye Ahmad
Work title: "CapCut Records"
Main direction tag: Direction B — CapCut as a Persona
Contact details: babavoss797@gmail.com
Social profile: twitter : https://x.com/sty_defi
We just wrapped a website redesign for DataLab USA, a data analytics and marketing company that's been in the space for decades.
Going into the project, they already had almost everything:
Expertise
Impressive track record
Proprietary technology
But the website didn’t reflect any of it.
You couldn’t really tell how established the company was unless you already knew them.
3 things were working against them:
Repetitive content that buried the most important information
Messaging that couldn't clearly explain what they do or why it matters
A visual identity that no longer reflected the company's actual position in the market
That's what we were brought in to fix.
The direction we landed on was minimal, sharp, and structured. Black and white as the base, with subtle blue gradients to guide attention and create hierarchy. Angular layouts. Thin dividers. Clean sections. Every visual decision was designed to mirror the analytical nature of the brand.
On the content side, we rebuilt the information architecture and rewrote the messaging from the ground up. The goal was clarity without stripping away the technical depth that gives DataLab credibility.
The result is a site that finally matches the company behind it.
If your product or company has outgrown the way it presents itself online, that's a fixable problem.
Book a call and let's talk about it.
Link in the comments.
A thoughtful rebuilding to mirror the exact brand look.
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