Welcome back to my little corner of the internet. If you’ve made it to issue two, you’re officially part of the crew, no secret handshake required!
This issue dives into spatial design, AI-built worlds, and what it means to belong: online, offline, and in the spaces between. A quick tour through the crossroads of creativity, culture, and code. Enjoy the ride.
SPATIAL DESIGN
From Static Image to Walkable World
One of my first world experiments via Marble
Building a 3D world starts with data, pixels, text, or geometry, and turns it into a space you can actually move through. It’s the digital equivalent of inflating a flat photo until it surrounds you. Instead of looking at an image, you’re inside it, wandering through what used to be a still frame.
That’s the magic World Labs is chasing with Marble, a tool that can take a single image or a text prompt and expand it into a walkable 3D environment. Less gallery viewing, more stepping inside the picture.
Marble offers a glimpse of where spatial interfaces might be heading. I’ll be exploring what it can (and can’t) do, and how these AI-generated worlds may shift how we design, test, and play.
This is still in very early stages. There’s a ton of beta testing going on. But I’m excited to see what emerges. So far, the best results with Marble come from images (or prompts) that:
Have clear, strong geometry. Think distinct planes, edges, and perspective cues
Use consistent lighting (shadows and highlights that make sense)
Avoid excessive clutter. Too many small objects or visual noise can confuse the model
Feature depth cues (foreground, midground, background) rather than being completely flat
Stick to a coherent style (realistic, stylized, low-poly). Marble seems better at staying consistent when the visual language is uniform
More to come!
CREATIVE INDEX
Audio Lab
The Creative Index is where I share what I’m currently exploring in the professional space: AI, UX systems, and creative tech experiments that shape how I think and work.
To turn that exploration into something more audible, I started Audio Lab, a micro-project powered by ElevenLabs. Each episode is a short riff—part reflection, part lab note—on emerging ideas I’m testing in real time.
Recent episodes:
🎙️ EP003 – Why Talking to Tech Is the Next Big Thing
🎙️ EP002 – Multi-Model Systems
🎙️ EP001 – AI World Models
CUIDATE
✨ Cultura, Comunidad & Healing
I’ve been thinking about how rare it feels to see all parts of my identity: first-gen Latina, tech worker, someone learning to hold onto both culture and self-care, acknowledged in the same space. At ¡Cuídate!, where cultura tangled with healing, chisme found its higher purpose, and mujeres gathered to feed mind, body, corazón, and soul— I felt that rare thing happen.
Angel Aviles said something that pierced straight through me: being Latina in tech and AI can feel like standing at the edge of a frontier…curious, eager, building, but also deeply alone. Representation is still so thin, it’s almost spectral. And yet, simply by being there, by refusing to let myself be edited out, there’s power.
The future is coming whether we want it to or not. AI, automation, and data-driven tools are already redesigning healthcare, education, and work. Here’s the thing: studies are showing these tools often encode bias against women, minorities, and people who don’t fit whatever “default” the designers assumed.
That means it’s not enough to be good at coding or to catch up. It means our perspectives, histories, voices, experiences, and culture have to be part of the mix before the algorithms are trained. Because once a biased tool is out in the world, it can deepen harm in subtle ways.
Community is preemptive resistance. Chingonas aren’t waiting for someone else to fix this. They are speaking, building, insisting the table shifts in form and content.
Because we don’t inherit identity cleanly, culture, history, mistakes, growth and failure of that inheritance shapes how we see the world and how the world sees us.
So I show up. Not just for my own sake, but for the people who came before and the ones who will come after. If we let others build the tools without us, we risk having tools that can’t see us, or worse, that erase us. I truly believe if my voice full of contradictions, cultura, struggle, and resilience is in the room, maybe those tools can become instruments of care rather than exclusion.
THE WORLD OF STYLUS
Noris Jumbo Stylus
I’ve been glued to my aiPaper Mini lately, it’s basically become an extra limb, only lighter and less prone to paper cuts. That, of course, sent me spiraling into the black hole of styluses. I thought there’d be, what, three? Maybe four? Turns out there are dozens, all promising to make digital scribbling feel like the second coming of ink.
With small hands (picture a raccoon wielding a baguette), comfort’s a big deal. After far too many reviews, I landed on the Noris Jumbo Stylus by STAEDTLER. One journaling session later, I was a convert. The writing’s buttery-smooth the eraser works. Not “sort of smudges it away” works…works works, and it fits perfectly in the aiPaper’s pen loop.
The Noris Jumbo staged a stylus revolution.
CUSTOM GPT
Want to try building a GPT of your own?
You don’t need to be a coder or an AI whisperer. I put together a beginner-friendly Figma deck with template, example, and clear step-by-steps to walk you through the whole process. A mini how-to guide that will help you get your own custom GPT up and running (and maybe a few ideas you didn’t expect). Get the deck →
FROM ICELAND
✨ Beyond the Photos
I’ve got a habit of collecting travel guides the way some people collect fridge magnets. Mine are heavier, are faded, and occasionally still have sand in the folds. Every corner turned down is a breadcrumb from some adventure, usually one involving poor decisions and excellent views.
I finally decided to crack open the old maps and see what stories they’ve been quietly fermenting. What follows isn’t a travel guide. Think of it as a love letter written on weathered paper. Part memory, part topography, entirely unshippable.