Notes from the oven.
Field reports, build logs, prompt cheatsheets, and the occasional opinion about how the future of design tooling should feel.
A field guide to writing prompts that bake clean icons
Subject + style + lighting + format. Why two extra words can save you ten retries, with side-by-side examples for ten common categories.
Style memory is here — lock your brand once, forget about it
Train Oven on a handful of your existing assets and every render that follows matches your system.
Designers we love: five people changing how 3D feels in product UI
Profiles of five working designers — what they make, how they ship, and the corner of the craft they're quietly moving forward.
GLB export, explained: when (and when not) to ship a real 3D asset
Transparent PNG is still the right answer 90% of the time. Here's the 10% where a GLB pulls real weight.
Behind the rebrand: why Oven's logo is a circle and nothing else
Eighteen rounds, two dropped concepts, and the surprisingly hot debate about whether you're allowed to put text inside a tiny circle.
What we're shipping next quarter — a rough sketch
API, animated APNG sequences, batch jobs, multi-seat workspaces. The order we're tackling them and why.
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