LEARNING LAB
Products I'm building in code, shipped in the open. Scroll the rail — each one opens to show the numbers most people hide.
Hero Shader Studio
The work hero shader, made tunable — every parameter of the shapes-over-footage mosaic as a live control.
- Claude
- WebGL
- Canvas
- Motion
Brand Voice Engine
AI Brand Ambassador: Your voice, made portable.
900K
tokens admired today
- Cursor
- Claude
- Vercel
- Next.js
GiT Design Drops
Agentic magazine for trending repos, design skills, and featured artist.
2.4M
Social Reach
- Claude
- Cursor
- Next.js
- Figma
Coming Soon
Keeps me working on ideas.
SYSTEMS ARCHITECTURE
01 · HUMAN EXTRACTION
What do people actually do?
Output
A behavioral map of real patterns, friction, and “make-or-break” moments.
How
- Observe real usage in the wild, not stated preference in a script.
- Extract the recurring human patterns the product has to respect.
Design/Tech Stack
- Dovetail
- Gemini
- Claude
DESIGN SYSTEM
One machine-readable contract, Design.md, compiles to the CSS variables every page here renders from. Humans read it. So do my agents.
Reading live values from the stylesheet…Read live from this page, not a snapshot.
Open the design system
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Paul Banks
Architect of Intent
Designing for humans, engineering for agents. After 19 years extracting human patterns, I've pivoted from crafting static interfaces to architecting autonomous systems — building the logic that helps agents understand what people actually need.