I want to share the exact prompts and parameters I use to get consistent character generations across different AI art tools. Over the past year I’ve been iterating on a workflow that balances repeatability and creative variation — the kind that lets you build a character library, maintain...
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Web Design
I compress images almost every week for client sites and my own projects. Over...
UX/UI
I used to think a portfolio case study’s job was simply to look impressive....
UX/UI
I’ve shipped designs with teams big and small, and one truth keeps...
Marketing
I write a lot about design and product launches, but one thing that always...
I’ve been experimenting with AI image tools for a while now, and one thing keeps coming up: it’s easy to generate interesting one-offs, but much harder to produce a cohesive set of visuals that feel like they belong together. Whether you’re...
When I first helped a tiny design team ship a product on a shoestring budget, we avoided the lure of a “perfect” component library and aimed for something that would actually get used. Years later I still lean on that same principle: a reusable...
I love Figma — it’s been my go-to canvas for everything from landing-page experiments to interactive prototypes and visual systems. But like any creative tool, it can choke when a file grows unwieldy. If your Figma files feel slow — laggy...
Pricing pages are where words meet money. Small copy tweaks can change how someone feels about value, risk, and urgency — and those feelings directly affect conversions. Over time I’ve tested dozens of microcopy changes across marketing sites...
I used to have a sprawling toolset: one app for notes, another for tasks, three different design tools, a browser full of tabs, and a dozen habit apps buzzing at once. It felt productive—until it didn't. I realised the real problem wasn't the work...
When I want to validate an onboarding pattern quickly, I reach for the simplest, most human-centred method I know: testing with five real users. It’s cheap, fast, and—if you do it right—reveals the biggest usability issues without getting...
Messy product backlogs are a reality I’ve come to accept — they grow faster than we can tidy them, priorities shift, and designers end up firefighting while trying to keep a coherent visual and interaction language. Choosing a design system in...