Hi! I am Yuri,
I help people turn ideas into useful digital products using design, AI, and systems thinking.
This blog documents the process: experiments, client work, failures, discoveries, and the occasional unexpected story.
Thanks to AI
When my mother was diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer, one of the first things I needed was clarity. This article is about how AI helped me understand what was happening, navigate uncertainty, and approach one of the most difficult events of my life differently.
On 20 August 2024, I logged into my Facebook account and saw a message saying that my account had been blocked. I tried everything I could to get it back, but so far I haven’t had any luck, so I recreated my page using AI.
Building a custom WordPress plugin became more than a technical experiment — it revealed a new way designers can create value through their own tools. This post explores how AI-assisted development helped transform a repetitive workflow into a scalable system connecting WordPress, APIs, and image optimisation.
What started as a website performance problem became an unexpected leap into AI-assisted development. This post explores how I used Codex to build “Squishy,” my own AVIF image optimisation web app, turning a manual workflow into a faster, scalable solution for WordPress and mobile-first design.
Hace poco me tocó vivir un evento que me permitió conectar mi experiencia como Diseñador con mis raíces ariqueñas: mi participación como jurado en el Carnaval Andino “Con la Fuerza del Sol” 2026 en Arica, Chile.
AI becomes smarter through our questions, creativity, and data — yet users rarely share in the value they help create. This post explores privacy, data ownership, and whether AI companies should reward the people fueling their growth.