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
A live pixel-art shader, connected directly to the homepage.
- Claude
- WebGL
- Canvas
- Motion
Brand Voice Engine
AI Brand Ambassador: Your voice, made portable.
900K
engagement
- Cursor
- Claude
- Vercel
- Next.js
GiT Design Drops
ReposAgentic 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.
EXHIBITS
Client index
- 0%Membersare stressed about money
- Start
- 01 / Now HiringBlockchain Analyst Verified diploma
- Your must-havesWalkable Backyard Near transit
Full client roster
- DigiCred2025 – presentFounding Designer
- MustWants2024 – 2025Founding Designer
- Credit Karma2021 – 2024Senior Designer IV
- Peloton2023 – 2024Sr. Interaction Designer
- Ancestry2020 – 2021Sr. Designer
- iHeartJane2017 – 2020Lead Designer
- Walmart2017 – 2018Sr. Art Director
- Sony PlayStation2015 – 2017Lead Designer
- Samsung2013 – 2015Sr. Concept Designer
- Advertising2011 – 2013Associate Creative Director
- Advertising2009 – 2011Associate Creative Director
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.