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A.I. Experimentation
Exploration
WHAT'S HERE?
Personal experiments optimizing design workflows through AI tools - primarily Midjourney, Claude, and Adobe's AI suite.
Cover Letter Automation
Architecting an intelligent solution that transforms tedious job applications into streamlined automation.
This project combines interactive web design with conversational AI to create personalized, professionally designed cover letters through simple chat interactions – demonstrating how thoughtful AI integration can solve real-world problems while maintaining creative quality.
COVER LETTER AUTOMATION PART 1
Interactive Design Development
AI UTILITY
Collaborative design-to-code workflow
• Used Claude as my web dev
• Dynamic constellation animations (Canvas API)
• Responsive CSS Grid layouts
• Modular JavaScript architecture
• AI-assisted workflow optimization
COVER LETTER AUTOMATION PART 2
Workflow Automation & Integration
AI CHALLENGE
Conversational automation with context retention
- n8n visual programming environment
- Anthropic Claude API integration
- Memory persistence and conditional logic
- Binary file processing for HTML output
- Intelligent follow-up question system
Transforms a 40+ minute manual process into a 4-minute intelligent conversation, reducing creation time by more than 10x while preserving the personalization and design quality.
PROJECT
Algorithm & Blues Fest
AI UTILITY
Rapid concept development, iteration and asset generation
NOTABLES
Runway's application process requires design applicants to develop a complete mood board — concept, logo, color palette and imagery/video — for a fictitious AI music festival of their own creation using AI-generated content.
What would have taken a week pre-AI was done in a day, start to finish.
PROJECT
Antique Animals
AI CHALLENGE
Specific, consistent and repeatable results
NOTABLES
A self-imposed challenge in achieving specific and consistent results (for the animal photos and picture frames) through partially AI-generated prompting and Midjourney's toolset.
PROJECT
Grafun Design
AI CHALLENGE
Combining AI tools, specific/repeatable results
NOTABLES
Typography-first approach using precisely crafted Midjourney prompts to generate specific imagery to fit a pre-exisiting concept; then employing Photoshop techniques (both traditional and AI) to create a cohesive final composition.
PROJECT
Lincoln Family Educational Foundation
AI UTILITY
Concepting, iterating with style reference
NOTABLES
A few years ago, agreeing to a pro bono logo design for a family non-profit would have given me pause. Drawing on my AI logo experience, I was able to rapidly concept ideas, then iterate using one of Midjourney's initial outputs as a style reference (--sref) to hone in on a final asset.
Easy-Mode Expansion
AI UTILITY
Photoshop AI, quickly augmenting imagery
NOTABLES
It might seem elementary at this point, but having used Photoshop for over 25 years, the flexibility and efficiency afforded by easily expanding images is something that still makes me giggle with child-like delight.
Picsi.ai
AI UTILITY
Already-outdated face swapping
NOTABLES
Anyone who's tried reproducing faces with AI knows the challenge. Picsi, an early Midjourney face-swapping tool, enabled this experiment — while such techniques are commonplace now, this felt pretty groundbreaking at the time.
