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AI Friday Maxxing · Week 1 · Delight

Build it because it feels good.

Most tools are built to be correct. Very few are built to be fun to touch. This is a made-up cake studio's order board, rebuilt for delight: 24 orders, six ways to hold them, and the same cards move between every view. Pick a card up and toss it. Then flip the Delight switch to see the same data the way most of us get it.

How I use it

I built the real one for the company I run. Every project sits on the step of the process map where it actually is, and I can look at the same work six ways and drill into any job. I built it to be fun to open, because a board people want to open is a board that stays true. This page is its public twin. The bakery is made up so the idea can travel.

The concept

Six moves to steal

None of these add a feature. They change how the same data feels in your hands.

01

Same papers, every view.

Every view moves the same cards. Nothing redraws, so your eye never loses the order it was watching.

02

Put the work on the process.

Draw the process first. Then let every order sit on the stop where it really is. Click a stop and it tells you what happens there and where it goes next.

03

Let it settle like paper.

A little spring in the motion makes a screen feel physical. Things overshoot a hair and land, the way paper does.

04

Let people make a mess.

Spreadsheets punish a mess. A desk invites one. Drag, flick, pile. It remembers where you left things.

05

Make time a shape.

A dial you can read from across the room beats a number in a cell. Start a clock and watch the wedge fill up and turn red.

06

A pile is a person.

Pick a role and the cards stack up by who owns them. Click a pile and only their cakes stay lit.

Your turn

Before next Friday

  1. Pick one thing.Something you look at every week. A list, a report, a schedule, a tracker.
  2. Ask one question.What would make this fun to touch? Not faster. Not more complete. Fun.
  3. Build it and bring it.Use AI to build that version and show it to the room. Ugly is fine. Boring is not.
I want to rebuild something I use every week so it is fun to use, not just correct.

Here is what it is and what is in it: [describe your list, report, schedule or tracker, or paste a few rows].

Build me one HTML file with no libraries. Make up realistic sample data so I can share it safely.

Turn every row into a card I can pick up. Give me at least three ways to arrange the same cards: by stage, by person, and by date. When I switch views, move the same cards to their new spots with a soft spring. Never redraw them.

Draw my process as a map and put each card on the step where it really is. Let me drag and flick cards around a desk and remember where I left them. When I click a card, zoom it open from where it sat and show me the detail.

It should feel like paper on a desk, not a spreadsheet.