Topological Capture

The imagination crisis isn't about your creativity. It's about the shrinking size of the room you've been given to think in.

The Politics of Taste

Taste is not a feeling, it's infrastructure for power, and in the AI era, the substrate itself is now property.

Vibe coding a musical instrument

Introducing the Instrument - speculative exploration of a slightly different digital musical instrument.

Refining the design process with AI in 2026

I moved the design process at Dashverse from Figma to Claude Code and GitHub. Design output doubled. Here's what that actually looks like.

Dashtoon studio 2023-24 | Webcomic creation platform

Designing a webcomic creation platform from scratch pushing content creation velocity to 5x.

Frameo.AI 2025 | Highlights

Highlights from 2025, on the journey building Frameo.AI, a chat-first AI native storytelling tool.

Collapse of the accidental megastructure

The system that shaped your soul, what you make, how you feel, and what you believe wasn't just designed. What happens when it falls apart?

Feeling Nothing and Everything All at Once

Your soul was manufactured. Reckoning with that is probably the most honest thing you've got

Taste is not a Vibe

Taste isn't something you're born with. It's something you build. A practical breakdown of how designers develop, sharpen, and apply genuine creative judgment in an age where AI can make anything but can't decide what matters.

Vibing this website into existence

Your portfolio has the same problem mine did. Here's how I fixed mine, and why you can fix yours too.

The end | Generative Art '22

A cosmic fidget spinner with 90s ambient audio simulating the feeling of being stuck in loops, with emergent behaviour.

Tool-making as an art practice

Tool-making is an art practice. Not the things you make with tools, the tools themselves are objects of power that shape how we think and who we become. I've spent eight years making tools as both generative art and AI products, and the line between them was never as clear as I thought. Every tool carries a philosophy. This is about what I've learned, and the questions I'm still sitting with.

Hello World

I am Ani and I used to write quite a bit when I was younger. But then life happened I guess, not to mention this vulnerability of feeling exposed when one puts pen to paper or in this case text to a screen. So here I am, finally, trying to overcome my fears and making an attempt to document my journey of figuring it out just like the rest of you.