My AI sandbox
The site you're using, made with AI at every layer. Short notes on what's underneath.
The frame
This site is a sandbox, not a polished portfolio. The whole production loop — strategy, copy, design, code, project management, deploy — was AI-enabled. The point wasn't to ship a finished product. It was to find out what an AI-enabled design practice actually feels like when you let it touch every part of the work.
The stack
Claude
CoworkClaude
Figma
LinearCowork
CursorNext.jsGitHub
VercelYellow underline marks the AI-assisted tools. Five layers, AI in four of them.
The unusual move
The design system was AI-researched before it was AI-built
Most "I built my site with AI" stories start at the code. Mine started two layers earlier.
I used Cowork to scrape a handful of inspiration sites, then ran the patterns through Claude Design to draft a starting visual direction. From there I went into Figma to think through it carefully — composition, hierarchy, what felt right. Took the final direction back to Claude to expand it into real tokens and a full design system, then handed the markdown spec to Claude Design to ideate the actual page composition.
AI compressed the research and synthesis. The judgment calls — what to keep, what to cut, what felt right — stayed with me.
What I learned
- —AI compresses, judgment remains. Every layer of the stack got faster. Nothing got automatic. The hard calls — positioning, what to keep, what to ship — are still mine.
- —Design system research is its own unlock. Cowork and Claude turned the scrape-and-distill exercise into a few hours of work. That step usually takes days.
- —Claude Design solved a real pain point. It absorbed the design system research and produced divergent site concepts that actually held the system. Adherence to a design system is one of the longest-running pain points for designers and design teams. Watching AI handle it well felt like a real breakthrough.
- —Cowork and Claude do different jobs. Claude is for thinking. Cowork is for doing. Treating them as one tool flattens what they're each good at.
What's next
- —The case studies are still drafts — finishing them is the next iteration.
- —Mobile layout has rough edges I haven't pushed on yet.
- —The Lab itself is the newest section. Expect more cards over time.