zainthe ai lab · experiments & roadmap
AI is my working medium. I'm helping my design org make it theirs too.
- 13+
- experiments on the wall
- 8
- shipped & in use
- 4
- altitudes · self → industry
rung 01
Side Quests
Personal builds. Proof I ship, not just design.
rung 02
Team
Raising the craft + velocity of the people around me.
rung 03
Org
Programs, systems, and rituals that help the whole design org.
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Industry
Work that reaches beyond the company.
- Org✅ shipped
CopyCat: Comms Framework
A tonal matrix + AI tooling that standardizes partner communication. Won the company-wide AI hackathon; live and in use by the team.
Frameworkread the build → - Org🔄 in progress
Gen-AI L&D Program
Director-approved, org-wide program upskilling designers to work with AI: weekly 1.5h sessions across skill-up, tool-building, and workflow phases.
Programread the build → - Org🔄 in progress
Design Tokens Audit
An end-to-end audit + governance pass on the design system's token layer: finding drift, naming rules, making the system trustworthy.
Design systemsread the build → - Side Quests✅ shipped
Macropad: every shortcut, one glance
A companion web app for his macropad: layers mapped onto an interactive render, editable bindings, installable as a PWA. Designed, built, and shipped solo.
Buildread the build → - Team✅ shipped
AI Playground Workshop
A full-day, hands-on workshop to move the design team from AI-curious to AI-productive. It seeded a video pipeline and ElevenLabs adoption.
Teachingread the build → - Team✅ shipped
Prime 2.0: Narrative Ideation
Generated 12 program narratives with AI; both finalist concepts came from the set, and the adopted Gemstone direction shipped Sep 2025.
AI as mediumread the build → - Team🔄 in progress
Forge: Per-Designer AI Tutor
A personal AI tutor for each designer on the team: curriculum-aware, paced to the individual.
Toolingread the build → - Side Quests🔄 in progress
Second Brain: Knowledge OS
A git-versioned, AI-run personal knowledge base. Built for me; the method is scaling toward an org-wide knowledge plan.
Systemread the build → - Side Quests🧪 experiment
Prism
A personal money OS: AI expense-logging that maps transactions into my own taxonomy, growing toward investment planning.
Productread the build → - Side Quests✅ shipped
CartCop
A strict-but-fair AI that pulls me over before checkout. It interrogates impulse buys and only approves genuine needs.
Productread the build → - Side Quests✅ shipped
Marifa
A study companion that decodes the layered meanings of classical mystic texts, built for my own daily reading practice.
Productread the build → - Industry✅ shipped
mobile-screen-eval
A heuristic + accessibility evaluator for mobile screens (Nielsen, WCAG, and platform patterns), published as a public package.
Toolingread the build → - Industry✅ shipped
Unjargon
Explains dev jargon to designers in plain language. A shipped public product, live on the web.
Productread the build →