By Russ Brown in Basement Files — 27 Jun 2025

Basement Files 110

There are lots of scary things about AI and the design profession feels like it's in an identity crisis but I can't remember being this excited about the possibilities of what I personally can do for a long time.

A new thing

I redesigned and rebuilt my portfolio last week and just started back at Chameleon this week. I had a great first week back designing our first Agents.

Building and exploring my own ideas gives me a lot of joy & energy. I'm starting to rediscover the fiercely logical 'developer thinking' that writing code forces upon you. Interestingly, the flow state of building something is equivalent to that of designing - often even more fulfilling. I'd forgotten that.

There are lots of scary things about AI and the design profession feels like it's in an identity crisis but I can't remember being this excited about the possibilities of what I personally can do for a long time.

Let a thousand shitty SaaS apps bloom...