How to Create Color Palettes with AI
Color is the most emotional design decision and AI can help you explore combinations you would never have considered. But it needs human direction to work.
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Free tools and real workflows from a designer who builds with AI
I have been designing for banks for over 10 years. Now I build everything from scratch with Claude, Midjourney, and PHP. This is not theory. It is what I do every day.
Claude Code Tutorial: How a Designer Built a Website from Scratch (2026) | Shinobis
How a UX/UI designer with 10+ years used Claude to build a trilingual blog from scratch with PHP and MySQL. Claude AI coding tutorial with real code examples, common mistakes, and Claude vs ChatGPT for coding.
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Midjourney prompts for fintech and banking design: what a designer with 10 years in banking actually uses
Best Midjourney prompts for fintech UX design and banking. Real prompts for financial dashboards, mobile banking apps, credit cards and branding. From a designer with 10+ years in the industry.
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5 Mistakes I Made Using AI to Design
It was not all success. These are the real mistakes I made integrating AI into my design process and what I learned from each one.
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Why Fintech Designers Have an Advantage with AI
Designing for money teaches you to think about consequences. That mindset is exactly what is missing from most AI design implementations.
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Prompt Engineering for Designers
Prompt engineering is not for programmers. It is for anyone who needs to communicate a vision to a machine. And nobody is better prepared for this than designers.
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How AI Helped Me Build This Blog
This blog would not exist without AI. Not because a machine designed it for me, but because AI eliminated every excuse I had for not starting. This is the technical and creative story of shinobis.com.
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UX Design in the Age of AI
AI is changing every layer of the UX process, from research to testing. But the core of the discipline remains intact. What changes is how we execute, not why we design.
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Guide to Photographic Styles in Midjourney
Not all styles work the same way in Midjourney. After hundreds of generations, I identified the styles that produce the most consistent and professional results. This guide documents each one with real prompts.
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My First Month Designing Only with AI
I set myself a challenge: for 30 days, every design deliverable I produced had to involve AI in a meaningful way. Not as an accessory. As the primary tool. Here is what I learned.
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