Hello! I’m Stefan Tilke.

I design it.
Then I build it.

Brands, websites, products, you name it.
These days I build a lot of it with AI.

Senior Designer & AI Creative Technologist

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WORK

Selected · 4 projects

01

Brand & website · Salesloft × ANML · 2026

Salesloft.com

Salesloft’s new brand and website, launched three months after the merger. ANML designed both. I partnered with them on art direction and UX strategy from concept to launch, then led the rebrand across our other marketing platforms.

Role
In-house design: art direction & UX strategy with ANML, reviews & feedback, rebrand of our marketing platforms
Credit
Brand & website by ANML
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02

Brand tool · Salesloft · 2026

SL Slide Creator

On brand, by default. A browser tool that turns an outline into strictly on-brand Salesloft slides, ready for Google Slides or PowerPoint.

Role
Product design, brand systems & build
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03

Brand art tool · Salesloft · 2026

SLD Construct

A creative tool built for Salesloft’s design team. Start from the brand’s key art or make new art, then build finished slides, social posts and loops in 2D, motion and real 3D, in minutes.

Role
Product design, motion systems & build
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04

Brand & website · Simpleview · 2023

Travel Tacoma

A brand refresh and new website for Tacoma and Mount Rainier. As creative lead at Simpleview, I led both, from research and wireframes to the design system and developer handoff.

Role
Creative lead & lead designer: brand refresh, UX/UI and visual design
Award
Gold dotCOMM Award
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Also shipped

LAB

Experiments & tools · updated often

Live

Phosphor FX Lab

A real-time visual effects studio for the web. Stack dither, ASCII, halftone, glass, light, fluid and real 3D in any combination, make it react to the cursor, and put it live on any website.

Coming soon

Visualizer

A Winamp-style audio visualizer with a whole library of effects that react to whatever your computer is playing. Free for anyone.

Coming soon

Shapeshift

An interactive 3D world built from this site’s circles, squares and triangles. Part toy, part game.

INFO

I’m a designer and AI creative technologist. Most recently at Salesloft, I worked on the brand and website and used AI to build cool stuff.

Before that I designed travel websites for millions of visitors at Simpleview, including a Gold dotCOMM winner, and brands, websites and products for startups as a freelance creative strategist. My whole career has been in marketing and brand, across web, product and visual design. I’ve always been a problem solver, and with AI I can now build the fix too.

Outside of work I’m usually building something with AI: small tools, visual experiments, things I wish existed. The best ones end up in the Lab.

Born in Yerevan, Armenia, raised on both coasts of the U.S., and now at home in Sunnyvale, California.

Stefan Tilke, smiling, in a denim jacket and backwards cap.

How I work with AI

AI writes the code. The taste, the standards and the final call stay with me.

  1. 01

    Context before code

    Before the first prompt I gather everything: brand files, templates, references and the rules nobody wrote down. Slide Creator started with hours of preparation before a single line was written.

  2. 02

    Art direct, don’t accept

    The first version is only a start. I use what we build, notice what feels off and keep pushing until it feels right. Most of the best features, like the guided tour, the help panel and the brand guardrails, came from that.

  3. 03

    Check everything

    I don’t trust a first pass, mine or the AI’s. I measure the output against the source files, test the edge cases and fix the details nobody asked about.

  4. 04

    Keep building

    What AI can do changes every month, so I find out by making things. The Lab is where that happens.

Let’s make something good.

stilke01@gmail.comLinkedIn/in/stefantilkePDFRésumé

Freelance · 2025

An AI product website shown on a laptop.

Full website design for an early-stage AI startup.

The startup helps brands control how they show up in AI search: in ChatGPT, Gemini and AI overviews. With a working product and early brand assets in place, they brought me in to design the public website. It had to explain a category few people understood yet, and earn the trust of enterprise marketing teams.

Most competitors’ sites were jargon-heavy and visually flat. I built a calm, spacious system instead: Gelica headlines over Lato, one iris blue accent, and AI-assisted imagery with an oil-painted texture, a nod to the mix of creativity and technology behind the product.

9%
Homepage visits that became qualified leads
$5.75M
Pre-seed round, raised shortly after launch

Shown as it shipped in 2025. The live site has changed since.

The full homepage on desktop, with the phone version beside it. Scroll inside the window to see all of it.
Mobile screens of the homepage.
Sections from inner pages.
An inner page, from the top to the footer.
Another inner page, from the top to the footer.
A third inner page, from the top to the footer.
A contact form beside a preview of the product dashboard.

In short

Clear, calm, credible.

A category few people understood yet, explained in plain language, on a system calm enough to earn the trust of enterprise marketing teams.

Freelance · 2025

A venture capital website shown on a laptop.

Website redesign, Webflow build and brand support for a venture firm.

A venture firm backing technology in healthcare, infrastructure and defense. I designed their first website and visual identity in 2021, and they brought me back to redesign and rebuild the site as the firm grew.

The new site had to feel credible to founders, partners and public-sector stakeholders without the usual venture clichés. Dark backgrounds, sharp type and the firm’s signature blue carry it, with simple motion graphics that explain the philosophy at a glance. I built it in Webflow, so it loads fast and grows with little development work.

+22%
Clicks to the portfolio companies
+26%
Time on the philosophy and people pages

“The best money we ever spent.”

A managing partner

Designed and built in 2025. Still live, much as it shipped.

The full homepage on desktop, with the phone version beside it. Scroll inside the window to see all of it.
The design system, with colors, typefaces and photography.
Mobile screens of the site.
A press section, a logo over a city at night beside a blue panel with contact links.
The portfolio companies page, a grid of companies with abstract rendered imagery.

In short

Built to grow with the firm.

Their first website and identity in 2021, then a redesign and a Webflow rebuild as the firm grew. Credible to founders, partners and the public sector, and it grows with little development work.

Visual effects studio · personal · 2026

Live

Phosphor FX Lab

A real-time visual effects studio for the web. Stack dither, ASCII, halftone, glass, light, fluid and real 3D in any combination, make it react to the cursor, and put it live on any website.

Phosphor started as a dither tool, because everyone loves the look and I wanted to do so much more with it. It grew into a creative tool for the web that’s powerful, useful and easy to use, for anything from a quiet background, a hero section, a card or a loader to something completely wild.

Start from a photo, a video, a 3D object or a generator, then stack any effects on top, in any order, blended like layers in a design tool. Every combination is a new look, and there are more than anyone could try. Any setting can animate or follow the cursor, and every change renders live, so an idea takes seconds to try. Your imagination is the only real limit.

When it’s right, export a still, a seamless loop or a live embed that drops onto any website and keeps reacting. It goes deep, but it’s quick to learn: pick a template and make it yours.

78
GPU effects, stacked in any order
31
Generators, from 3D objects to nebulas
106
Templates, 54 made for the web
69
One-click looks
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Build it up layer by layer. Every change renders live.
Live · a nebula in the corner, under a Bayer dither. It leans toward you.
Live · a real 3D ribbon that reaches for your cursor
Drop in a video and it works just like a photo. A screen recording of a betta fish, typed out in colored cells.
ASCII in colored cells, 16 px
Braille dots, a CRT and a color grade
JPEG Crush, real 8×8 compression artifacts
Thermal halftone inks and a headline
Switch ASCII on, hover to preview characters and blends, drag a layer under it.
Live · the same orb, typed out in ASCII
Live · a 3D sculpture in print dots. It turns to watch you.
Live · seven effects stacked. Push the particle logo around.
Four layers on one photo. The RGB split is tied to the cursor, and swells near the center.
Live · move to the center and back
Live · glowing clouds under a Bayer dither. The cursor carries a light.
Before and after, one drag. Two layers do all of this.
Live · light through fluted glass. It follows your cursor.
Live · a fluid heat trail. Draw on it.
The Made for web collection, all reacting to the cursor.
Out as stills, loops, vectors or a live embed. Every live piece on this page is one.

How I got here

Made to keep growing.

What began as a dither tool kept growing: halftone and ASCII, glitch and CRT, glass, light, fluid, real 3D and video. It still gets new effects, generators and templates all the time, and every one stacks with everything already there, so each addition multiplies what you can make. The best way to see it is to try it.

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