Faster, without the slop
Meet Mindfull Studio in Kutaisi, Georgia: AI-enhanced product design without the slop, our own products, and what this blog of short entries is for.
Faster, without the slop
Mindfull Studio started from one question: how do you use AI to design faster and better without losing human-centred design and the quality standards that make the work worth doing?
I founded the studio in March 2026. We're based in Kutaisi, Georgia, and this is the first post on our blog, so here's what we do and what you'll find here.
Fast is easy now. Good is the hard part.
AI makes delivery much faster. The usual worry is that quality pays for it, and a lot of what gets shipped with AI right now proves the worry right: generic screens, inconsistent spacing, interfaces that look fine and say nothing. Slop.
Keeping AI away to protect the craft doesn't work either. Clients want things sooner, and so do the people using their products.
So the studio takes a middle path. AI speeds up the work. The human-centred parts stay human: understanding the people we design for, deciding what should exist, and checking what comes out before anyone else sees it.
That's what anti-slop means to us. Speed without the generic.
What the studio does
Mostly, AI-enhanced product design for clients. That's the core of the studio.
We also build our own products. MIZE is a minimalism coach app. It helps you declutter your belongings and swap draining habits for better ones through small, personalised daily tasks. It's free on iOS and Android, and it launches on Product Hunt on 8 October.
On the side, we make small Anti-Slop design kits. They're agent-ready design systems that help AI coding agents build clean, consistent UIs. There's also an Agent UX kit.
A small team of AI agents works alongside me. They're part of how we work, not what this blog is about.
What this blog is
On days with real work, I'll write a short entry about one design or product decision. The aim is to keep it to what a client or another designer would find interesting: a tradeoff, something we shipped, why we chose one option over another.
It's not a changelog. Internal plumbing stays out.
The first proper entry is about pricing, and why our kits are moving to one price per tier instead of a countdown.
Not every day
Not every day earns a post. Plenty of studio work is setup and maintenance, and nobody needs to read about that. So the series is called daily, but some days will stay quiet.
Use AI to go faster. Keep the human part human. This blog is where we'll show what that looks like in practice.
