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Bringing user journeys to life

I've been experimenting with Midjourney to transform traditional user journeys into visual narratives that feel like sketches from a designer's notebook. By giving these workflows a hand-drawn, storyboard aesthetic, I've found that stakeholders and team members connect with the user's story on a deeper level—it's easier to empathize with a character when you can see them navigating each step of their experience.

This approach draws inspiration from the famous Airbnb and Pixar storyboard collaboration from over a decade ago, which showed how powerful visual storytelling can be for understanding user needs. The biggest creative challenge has been developing techniques to maintain character consistency and visual style across multiple scenes and scenarios, but the experimentation process has been incredibly rewarding.

The "sketchbook" quality helps keep the focus on the story and emotions rather than getting caught up in polished UI details too early in the design process.

And now you can add motion in Midjourney

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Building experiences beyond my current abilties

After a decade of relying on Webflow for web development, I've started using Cursor to push beyond the platform's limitations and build experiences that were previously out of reach . By combining natural language prompting with visual references like screenshots and Figma files shared directly with the AI, I can rapidly translate concepts from my head into working code.
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This workflow proved transformative when building my Taste site, a personal showcase for my curated interests in design, art, music, and books. What used to require extensive back-and-forth between design tools and development constraints now flows much more naturally.
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The most exciting shift has been the ability to compress my design process. Instead of always going sketch to Figma to code, I can now jump directly from rough sketches to functional prototypes, or even from pure concept to code.

Concept Sketch

Final Build

03.

Building prototypes and personal tools

I've been experimenting with both Replit and Lovable to build prototypes and personal tools. These "vibe coding" platforms feel fundamentally different from Cursor in that there's less granular control, but the tradeoff is incredibly fast iteration from concept to functional prototype.
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The experience has been both exhilarating and humbling. While I can get to a working proof of concept faster than ever before, I consistently hit the "70% problem." Everything works beautifully until I need to add that final layer of polish or make a specific customization, at which point something invariably breaks or becomes harder to implement than expected.
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These tools are evolving at such a rapid pace that what feels impossible today will likely be seamless tomorrow. For now, I'm using them to quickly test ideas and build rough tools that would have taken much longer to prototype previously.

Prompt

Initial Build

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