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How to Design an Interactive 1990s Desktop Simulator in the Browser Using Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Recreate the grey-bevelled, floppy-disk-clicking glory of late 90s operating systems in a single promptable browser app with Claude 3.5 Sonnet.
InspirationHow to Design a Fictional Neo-Gothic Tarot Deck Using Midjourney and Figma Weave
A hands-on creative blueprint for generating consistent, moody occult illustrations in Midjourney and assembling them into a beautiful, print-ready deck with Figma Weave.
InspirationHow to Design Retro-Style Cassette J-Cards for Fictional Synthwave Playlists Using Midjourney and Figma Weave
Bring your digital playlists into the physical world. A step-by-step creative guide to designing and laying out authentic retro cassette J-Cards using Midjourney and Figma Weave.
InspirationHow to Build a Fictional Botanical Field Guide for Imaginary Plants Using Claude and Midjourney
Tired of generic fantasy lore? Learn how to combine Claude's structural reasoning with Midjourney's styling to build a beautifully illustrated, taxonomically sound field guide to fictional flora.
InspirationHow to Design Procedural Eurorack Synthesiser Faceplates Using Midjourney and Figma Weave
Combine the hyper-detailed textures of generative art with the strict millimeter measurements of modular synthesiser faceplates using this hybrid creative pipeline.
InspirationHow to Build an Interactive, Self-Generating ASCII Art Museum in Your Terminal Using Claude 3.5 Sonnet
LLMs are notoriously bad at spatial reasoning. Here is how to bypass their tokenisation blind spots to build a gorgeous, dynamically generated ASCII art gallery directly in your command line.
InspirationHow to Generate a Fictional 1970s Psych-Rock Vinyl Gatefold Using Claude and Midjourney
Step back into 1973. Learn how to orchestrate Claude and Midjourney to create a hyper-convincing, psych-rock vinyl sleeve complete with airbrushed gatefold art.
InspirationHow to Design a Fictional 1960s Cold War Espionage Dossier Using Claude and Midjourney
Ditch the generic world-building. Learn how to combine Claude's sharp narrative voice with Midjourney's analogue rendering to build a classified 1960s spy dossier.
InspirationHow to Design a Fictional 1970s Brutalist Architecture Map Using Claude and Midjourney
Construct a beautifully sombre, weathered tourist map of a fictional Eastern Bloc city. Learn how to generate risograph prints, concrete textures, and dry bureaucratic prose.
InspirationHow to Design a Fictional 1990s Cyber-Thriller Board Game Using Claude and Midjourney
Dust off the neon grid. Learn how to combine Claude's sharp creative writing with Midjourney's retro-aesthetic generation to design a complete, delightfully convoluted 90s cyber-board game.
InspirationHow to Build a Fictional 1950s Retro-Futurist Space Travel Brochure Using Claude and Midjourney
Step into the golden age of sci-fi optimism. Learn how to generate a gorgeously naive, mid-century modern brochure advertising family holidays to Venus.
InspirationHow to Generate a Fictional Victorian Subterranean Expedition Log Using Claude and Midjourney
Ditch the generic fantasy world-building. Here is a step-by-step guide to generating a highly detailed, beautifully illustrated 19th-century explorer's journal complete with eccentric Victorian pseudoscience.
InspirationHow to Design a Custom 'Software Engineering' Tarot Deck Using Claude and Midjourney
Ditch the traditional Major Arcana. Learn how to map modern development struggles to esoteric symbols and design a stunning, physical tarot deck for programmers.
InspirationHow to Design a Fictional 1980s Retro Computer Manual Using Claude and Midjourney
Step back to 1984. Learn how to combine Claude's nostalgic technical writing with Midjourney's retro vector style to draft a beautiful, completely fictional user guide for a system that never existed.
InspirationHow to Build a Generative Deep-Sea Field Guide for Fictional Bioluminescent Organisms Using Claude and Python
Unleash your inner speculative biologist. Use Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Python to procedurally generate a field guide of fictional deep-sea creatures, complete with Latin names, survival metrics, and custom SVG anatomy diagrams.
InspirationHow to Design an Interactive 1990s Cyberpunk Desktop OS Interface Using Midjourney and Figma Weave
Ditch boring, flat UI mockups. Learn how to combine Midjourney's retro-futuristic aesthetic with Figma Weave's interactive canvas to build a living, breathing 1990s cyberpunk operating system.
InspirationHow to Generate Procedural Fantasy Maps as Raw SVGs Using Claude and Python
Ditch static, low-res image generators. Learn how to coax Claude into writing raw, beautifully styled vector code to render infinitely scalable fantasy maps.
InspirationHow to Design a Fictional Vintage Seed Catalogue from the Year 2099 Using Midjourney and Claude
Combine the grainy, off-kilter charm of 1970s print mailouts with speculative post-climate-shift botany. Here is how to write the lore, prompt the mutated flora, and build a beautiful, unsettling zine.
InspirationHow to Build a Generative Gothic Horror Murder Mystery Game Kit Using Claude and Python
Ditch the boring boxed party games. Learn how to write a lightweight Python pipeline that uses Claude to generate custom, character-driven Gothic murder mystery scripts.
InspirationHow to Design a Fictional 1920s Speakeasy Menu and Cocktail Guide Using Claude and Midjourney
Step back into the jazz-drenched, bootlegger-run streets of 1925. Learn how to combine Claude's sharp narrative worldbuilding with Midjourney's Art Deco aesthetics to create an immersive, historically textured vintage menu.
InspirationHow to Design a Generative Alternate History Museum Catalogue Using Midjourney and Claude
Escape the boring cyberpunk aesthetic. Learn how to combine Claude's dry curatorial writing with Midjourney's styling to build an archive of impossible, clockwork Victorian technology.
InspirationHow to Build a Generative 1970s Space Station Terminal Simulator Using Claude and Python
Ditch the boring chat interfaces. Learn how to combine Claude's system prompting with Python's Textual library to build a flickering, low-bandwidth retro sci-fi terminal simulator.
InspirationHow to Design Architectural Blueprints for Impossible Non-Euclidean Buildings Using Midjourney and Claude
Tired of generic, symmetrical house renders? Learn how to generate surreal, Escher-style architectural blueprints and design logs using Midjourney and Claude.
InspirationHow to Build a Procedural Conlang Generator and Grammar Guide Using Claude and Python
Constructing a fictional language from scratch is notoriously tedious. Here is how to combine Python’s strict logic with Claude’s linguistic intuition to generate realistic alien conlangs, complete with grammar rules and vocabulary lists.
InspirationHow to Design a Retro 1980s Synthesiser User Manual Using Midjourney and Claude
Take a trip into nostalgic tech design. Learn how to combine Claude's clinical technical writing with Midjourney's retro aesthetic to design an authentic, fictional 1980s synthesiser user manual.
InspirationHow to Build a Generative Cryptid Sighting Tracker for a Fictional 1970s Town Using Claude and Python
Ditch the boring boilerplate databases. Learn how to use Python and Claude to construct a procedurally generated municipal archive of eerie, interconnected cryptid sightings in a fictional 1970s Pacific Northwest logging town.
InspirationHow to Build a Procedural Lost-Recipe Generator for Fictional Civilisations Using Claude and Python
Ditch the boring fantasy mead. Learn how to use Python and Claude to build an anthropological recipe engine that generates culturally grounded, bizarre culinary dishes for fictional worldbuilding.
InspirationHow to Design a Fictional 1980s VHS Horror Board Game Using Midjourney and Claude
Step into the retro-futuristic world of tape-based terror. Learn how to combine Claude's narrative depth with Midjourney's analogue aesthetic to build a complete design bible for a lost 1988 horror classic.
Inspiration5 AI Agent Ideas You Can Build This Weekend
Five agents that take under an hour each, need no code, and solve something you actually do every week. With the instructions worth stealing.
InspirationHow to Design a Fictional Subterranean Metro Map and Travel Guide Using Claude and Midjourney
Step away from the surface world. We show you how to use Claude to structure a sprawling underground transit system, draft cheeky subterranean tourist tips, and use Midjourney to generate atmospheric cross-section concept art.
InspirationHow to Draft a Retro 1990s Point-and-Click Adventure Game Bible Using Claude and Midjourney
Want to build the next Monkey Island or Grim Fandango? Here is how to use Claude to design classic, non-linear puzzle trees and Midjourney to render glorious 16-bit pixel art backgrounds for a complete retro game bible.
InspirationHow to Build a Procedural Late-Night Talk Radio Show Using Gemini and Python
Capture the comforting, chaotic, and downright weird energy of late-night AM talk radio. Build a Python script that runs an infinite conversation between an exhausted host, bizarre callers, and terrible sponsors using Gemini 1.5 Flash.
InspirationHow to Design a Retro-Futuristic 1960s Space Tourism Brochure Using Midjourney and Claude
Step back into the golden age of space-age optimism. Learn how to combine Claude's copy-crafting flair with Midjourney's styling capabilities to design an authentic, cheeky 1960s-style travel brochure for fictional cosmic destinations.
InspirationHow to Design an Absurdist 1970s Mail-Order Catalogue for Weird Fictional Inventions Using Midjourney and Claude
Combine Midjourney's analogue texture capabilities with Claude's copywriting prowess to construct a bizarre, retro-futuristic catalogue of gadgets that never existed.
InspirationHow to Build a Simulated 1990s Dial-Up BBS with Autonomous AI Callers Using Claude and Python
Recreate the golden, chaotic age of dial-up bulletin boards. Learn how to build a local BBS simulation in Python populated by autonomous, AI-driven users trading warez and flame wars.
InspirationHow to Design a Tarot Deck of Modern Tech Archetypes Using Midjourney and Claude
Move over, High Priestess. Discover how to use Claude to translate classic Tarot symbolism into modern tech-industry archetypes, and generate stunning, consistent neo-gothic illustrations using Midjourney.
InspirationHow to Build a Procedural Interactive Museum Audio Guide for Weird Fictional Artifacts Using Claude and Python
Tired of boring real-world history? Learn how to write a Python script that taps into Claude to procedurally generate an eerie, interactive audio guide for an infinite museum of surrealist, impossible objects.
InspirationHow to Build a Generative Solo Journaling RPG Engine Using Claude and Python
Solo journaling roleplaying games are a massive trend. Discover how to build a local Python engine that uses Claude 3.5 Sonnet as an intelligent, fair-playing 'Oracle' to drive procedural narrative adventures.
InspirationHow to Design a Speculative Biology Field Guide for Alien Flora Using Midjourney and Claude
Ditch the generic sci-fi landscapes. Learn how to combine Claude's logical worldbuilding with Midjourney’s v6 engine to craft a highly structured, beautifully illustrated 19th-century style botanical guide for an entirely fictional planet.