I design products, build tools, and tell stories.
I’m Nick, a product designer, design engineer, and artist in Montréal. I make complex software easier to use and build tools for visual storytelling.
Recent projects
Core projects
- Filmmaking
- Original film projects spanning story development, visual experiments, practical props, and AI-assisted production.
- Agentic Design System
- Components, design rules, and review tools that help AI agents build consistent interfaces.
- Jobsmith
- A workspace for assessing job opportunities, tracking applications, and organizing a job search.
- LifeOS
- A personal operating system connecting daily tasks, notes, reflection, and longer-term goals.
- SuperClock
- A custom smart clock that brings time, weather, and daily routines into a circular physical display.
- Design Tools & Skills
- Reusable tools and AI workflows for exploring ideas, reviewing interfaces, and taking designs into code.
Storytelling tools
- Prop to Image
- A workflow for reimagining physical props through images and preparing selected designs for 3D reconstruction.
- Previs
- An exploration of planning shots, lenses, and actor positions inside walkable 3D sets.
- VR Art Room
- A virtual creative studio, with a proposed film-focused variant for arranging floating storyboard sketches in space.
- Flow Builder
- A visual canvas for connecting image, video, and audio generation into reusable workflows.
- Film Analyzer
- A shot-by-shot film study tool for examining composition, camera movement, lighting, and storytelling choices.
- Film Storytelling Kit
- Illustrated cards and prompts for developing stories, exploring film craft, and testing creative decisions.
- Film Writer
- A connected workspace for developing film worlds, linking characters and locations, and planning scenes and shots.
- My Museum Guide
- A mobile museum companion that identifies photographed exhibits and tells their stories through audio.
- Media Pipelines
- Tools for generating images, video, speech, music, and sound effects while organizing references and outputs.
More experiments
- Story Dice
- Printable dice designs that combine characters, settings, conflicts, and twists into story prompts.
- Visualizing Crowds
- An interactive visualization that makes crowd sizes tangible by placing people in recognizable spaces.