Alex and AI
Vibe-coding is empowerment. Alex vibe-codes mini apps, makes material UX and UI improvements via Figma MCP, and is energized by the newfound abilities to solve problems and boost performance and productivity. Alex also uses AI as a design partner to think, prototype, and move faster. He likes to start in LLMs to clarify intent and explore edge cases, then use tools like Cursor or Claude to prototype flows and behaviors before refining systems and craft in Figma.
Skylab -- a name tied to his freelance company Skyconcepts -- was built soley in Cursor AI to solve for 4 specific, personal use cases (so far): Color palette generatation, Accessibilty scoring, SEO review, and image/video compression. He's building mini apps to work for him, by him, and it's diminishing his reliance on 3rd party software to work fast and efficiently.
In a world of noise, Alex is using AI to build his first native iOS app called Fidgy. It brings an element of calm to your day should you find yourself on your phone. Currently in development with Claude Code, building in Swift.
A longtime personal need now solved. Lottiefiles wants $20 per month, so I built a tool directly in Figma that allows me to select frames and export an animation, while supporting Smart Animate. Files can be downloaded in Lottie or animated SVG formats - exactly what I and thousands of other designers need to hand off animations to engineers.
Alex built a solution to a problem him and his friends have had for years: sharing music to each other when everyone is using different music streaming platforms. Your friend shares a Spotify track to you but you have Apple Music. You're trying to share a song to another friend that uses Youtube Music. Paste the link into linkler and get respective links or share the whole page.
Alex volunteered for 3 months to design the PEAK6 AI team's new software: R2G2 -- an agentic, AI platform used across all PEAK6 companies. The project included a conversational interface with multi-modal support, progressive rendering, multiple data source support, custom assistants and sub assistants, and more.
Alex led design and strategy for Zogo Finance's first push of AI into its consumer app of 3M users. An AI-powered news summarization service curates the top finance stories daily, summarizes the articles into key takeaways, and delivers to Zogo members twice a day.
