Notes on designing and building with AI, by Michael Angeles.

Work with me

Products

Things I've designed and built, mostly with Claude Code as my dev partner. I use these to show rather than tell how I work.

8 releases · all live today

In production

Real users, real jobs, maintained accordingly. Use them today.

Klarita
SaaS

Klarita

A design brief tool for the thinking you do before you build. It walks you through four phases (Explore, Define, Design, Test) with AI-guided activities that produce artifacts you can refine and hand off. Share & Test then shows reviewers what a prototype was meant to do before they react to it, so what comes back is judgement rather than preference.

ForTeams who owe someone a brief before anyone opens a design tool. It's the product my courses build on.

Shipping since April 2026. Latest release added Share & Test.

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Unicron Mac app · Free

Unicron

A second-brain front end for Mac that turns a plain-markdown note vault into a daily briefing powered by Claude. Generates daily briefs, turns meeting transcripts into clean notes, rolls up open tasks, and maps how notes connect. Local files, no lock-in.

ForAnyone who wants to stay on top of the right tasks and priorities, with AI as a killer assistant. Built on an ontology that manages a knowledge graph.

Shipping since June 2026. Latest release added chat with diffs and revert.

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Motivist iOS app · $2.99

Motivist

An iPhone visualization, tracking and achievement app for people who need a way to stay accountable and work toward larger goals. Built on neuroscience-backed methods with a gentle, realistic approach for ADHD brains.

ForAction-focused goal achievement for ADHD brains.

Shipping since February 2026. Latest release added action focus timer and journal text styling.

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Where the method comes from

Before I built my own products, I spent twenty-five years designing other people's.

Balsamiq for fifteen years as the product designer. Co-founder of the Information Architecture Institute. Along the way, Google, Calx Analytics, Bell Labs, Sling, Traction, Sapient, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The full history