Happy Monday, creative family, and welcome to Logiaweb Weekly.
This week’s design intelligence briefing reveals:
🧪 What I'm Building: Behind the Scenes
🚨 Big News: Microsoft Just Open Sourced the Best 3D Generator Out There
🤖 Design Inspiration: AI Powered 3D Generation With the Exact Prompts
🛠️ Tutorial of the Week: Create a Premium Website Using Higgsfield + Figma
💡 Prompt of the Week: Playground
⚙️ AI Tool of the Week: Napkin AI
WHAT I’M BUILDING
Behind the Scenes
This week, I attended AfricAI - an event organized by Akil Wade that brought together some of the top creators in AI automation, including Liam Ottley, Nate Herk, Dave Ebbelaar, and more.
I’ll be honest: I’m not an AI automation expert. I’ve played with n8n a few times, but that’s about it. That’s exactly why this event was so valuable. Hearing how others automate their businesses, and openly sharing what works and what doesn’t, gave me a ton of practical insights.
It was the perfect mix of learning, networking, and fun. Now I’m back to work with a long list of ideas to implement. My goal is to attend events like this at least once every four months, as they always bring fresh perspective.
Feeling re-energized and ready to get back to the grind.
BIG NEWS
Microsoft Just Open Sourced the Best 3D Generator Out There
Microsoft just dropped Trellis 2, an open source AI model that turns any image into a high quality 3D asset. And the best part? It's completely free.
What caught my attention
This is not just another 3D tool. Trellis 2 is a model that generates fully textured 3D models with real materials. We're talking base color, roughness, metallic properties, and even transparency. All from a single image.
Upload a photo, hit generate, and within seconds you get a preview. If it looks good, click one button and your 3D model is ready to download. At 512 resolution, it takes about 3 seconds. At 1536 resolution, about 60 seconds.
Why it matters
Most 3D tools still require serious technical knowledge. You need to model, UV unwrap, texture, light, and render. With Trellis 2 that whole pipeline just got compressed into a single step.
It handles complex structures that previous tools couldn't touch, including open surfaces, non manifold geometry, and enclosed interior structures. It also outputs PBR textures, which means your 3D models look photorealistic under any lighting condition.
For designers building product pages, landing pages, or presentations, this means you can grab a product photo and turn it into a 3D asset without opening Blender or hiring a 3D artist.
The real win
The mesh conversion runs in under 10 seconds on a standard CPU with no optimization needed or rendering pipeline to set up. You simply upload and download.
This is a big bottleneck in 3D design that Microsoft has removed: the technical barrier. You don't need to be a 3D artist anymore. You just need a good reference image and a clear idea.
If you've been avoiding 3D elements in your designs because the learning curve was too steep, Trellis 2 is your solution.
DESIGN INSPIRATION
AI Powered 3D Generation With the Exact Prompts
Tool Used: Tripo
PROMPT: Create a 3D product showcase scene featuring a pair of premium wireless headphones floating at a slight angle against a soft gradient background. The headphones should have a matte black finish with brushed aluminum accents on the ear cups and a subtle leather texture on the headband padding. Position them slightly off center with gentle ambient lighting. Add a faint circular glow behind the product to create depth separation. The overall mood should feel premium, minimal, and editorial, like a high end product page hero section designed for a luxury tech brand. Clean background, no text, no UI elements.Tool Used: Sloyd AI
PROMPT: Luxury aviator sunglasses, polished gold metal frame with brushed texture, tinted lenses with subtle mirror reflective coating, sleek modern timeless design, premium matte finish on temple arms, minimalist aesthetic, adjustable nose pads, thin elegant temples, soft curved edges, realistic glass and metal materials, professional studio lighting, clean white background, high quality detailed 3D render, product photography style.Tool Used: Hyper3d
PROMPT: Generate a photorealistic 3D rendered scene of a luxury perfume bottle. The bottle should have a rectangular shape with beveled glass edges that catch and refract warm golden light from a single directional source positioned at the upper left. The cap should be a heavy brushed gold metal piece with subtle engravings. The marble surface should show natural veining patterns with a slight reflection of the bottle visible on its polished surface. The entire composition should feel cinematic and editorial, suitable for a high end product landing page or beauty brand campaign visual. Ultra detailed materials, realistic glass refraction, professional studio lighting setup with rim light separating the subject from the background.TUTORIAL OF THE WEEK
Create a Premium Website Using Higgsfield + Figma
Most designers are still using stock videos or static images for website. This workflow lets you build something way more personal and polished using AI generated video of a custom character, then drop it straight into a real design.
Step 1: Record Your Reference Video
Grab your phone and record a short video of yourself. Keep it simple. A few seconds of movement is all you need.
This becomes the motion reference for your AI character, so think about what action you want on your final site.
Step 2: Generate Your AI Character in Higgsfield
Open Higgsfield and upload your reference video.
Using Kling Motion Control, recreate the exact same video but performed by a custom AI character.
The AI matches your movements precisely, so what you recorded is what you get back, just with a completely new character.
Once the generation looks good, download the final video file.
Pro Tip: Keep your original recording clean and well lit. The better your reference, the better the AI output.
Step 3: Build Your Layout in Figma
Open Figma and create a new frame for your website design.
Set up your layout structure: grid, spacing, and sections.
Add your typography, headings, subheadings, and body text with proper hierarchy.
Drop in your UI elements like navigation, buttons, and cards.
Step 4: Drop the AI Video Into Your Design
Import the downloaded Higgsfield video directly into your Figma frame.
Position it as your hero element or wherever it fits the layout.
Adjust the framing and make sure it integrates with your typography and UI components.
What makes this workflow powerful is the personal touch. You're not pulling from a stock library. You're recording your own motion, transforming it with AI, and building the design around it. The whole thing stays original and on brand.
PROMPT OF THE WEEK
PROMPT: A minimalistic 3D app icon design featuring a rounded square base in soft sky-blue with smooth beveled edges. Centered on the icon is a glossy white speech bubble symbol with a stylized lightning-bolt zigzag cutout inside, also in blue. The icon has a soft, clay-like plastic material with subtle reflections and gentle gradients. Lighting is studio-style, evenly diffused, with soft shadows beneath the icon for depth. The object is slightly tilted in perspective, floating against a clean white background. Ultra-high resolution, modern UI icon style, Apple-like design language, smooth surfaces, no text, no noise, no background elements, premium 3D render.TOOL OF THE WEEK
Napkin AI
Napkin AI takes your plain text and turns it into polished visuals like diagrams, flowcharts, infographics, and presentation decks, all without any design skills needed.
👉 Here's a demo of Napkin AI:
🧠How I'd use it
I'd use Napkin AI to:
Turn client briefs into visual project roadmaps that actually look professional instead of sending a wall of text.
Create quick infographics for social media posts by just pasting in my blog content and letting the AI pick the best visual format.
💡 Bonus Prompt:
Use this prompt in Napkin AI to create a visual workflow for your design process.
Prompt: Create a detailed visual breakdown of a modern AI-assisted web design workflow from client discovery to final launch. Start with a discovery phase showing client brief intake, competitor analysis, and brand positioning. Move into the planning phase with sitemap creation, wireframing, and content strategy. Then show the design phase featuring AI-powered mockup generation, design system setup, color palette extraction, and typography selection. Follow with the development phase including responsive build, interaction design, and performance optimization. End with the launch phase covering QA testing, client review rounds, SEO setup, and deployment. Use a clean horizontal flowchart style with distinct color coded sections for each phase, simple icons representing each task, and connecting arrows showing the progression. Keep the visual style modern and minimal with a light background, rounded containers, and a professional color palette using navy, teal, and warm coral accents.
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See you next Monday,
— Adrien
Adrien Ninet
