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Draft: Zain's voice pass pending. Adapted from a LinkedIn post; he reviews before this publishes.
That was the spirit behind our first Design Day: AI Playground. My one goal was to remove the fear and friction around Gen AI tools and get the team genuinely excited to explore, not just told to use them.
We spent the day playing. Animated static images with ChatGPT and Google's Veo 2. Trained FluxLoRA to generate our own faces in different styles. Played with ICEdit and IClight, and recreated Pinterest-style posters using our own photos. Used Hedra to generate personalized videos from AI-written lyrics and our own voices. Then pushed one idea through every format it could take — a slide became flashcards, then an interactive quiz, then a 3D game, then a VR experience, then a real-time GIF, all Gen AI end to end.
We tried real workflows too: I built a custom Gemini GPT to run synthetic user testing — simulating feedback on app designs to cut down early-stage usability cycles without replacing real user voices. We closed the day with a team anthem for Kepler-7, generated with Suno, our own lyrics, and a lot of team energy. Everyone got their own song.
Grateful to the team — Shiva Kumar, Arivukkarasu Periyasamy, Ananya Dhareshwar, Tulasi Gudapati, Noorudheen A, Sandeep Sreedharan, Sathish Kumar — for staying curious the whole day. And a big thanks to Promoth K., my lead, who introduced me to the GenAI Pulse workshop by 100xEngineers and sponsored it out of our team budget. That's what lit the first spark.
This was day one. Next: vibe coding workflows, AI agents, automation flows, voice tools, multimodal experiments. We're not just watching the future of design happen — we're building it.