Live session · Kissflow · July 2026

Building an illustration library through AI.

A session by Vadivel · Director of Design, Kissflow

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Hello, I'm

Vadivel

Director of Design, Kissflow 20+ years in design

I run on one idea: simplicity. In design, and in life.

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A beautiful drawing
Drop your drawing here
save it as hook-drawing.jpg
next to this file
How does this look?
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Show of hands

How many of you
love drawings?

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Show of hands

How many of you
love to draw?

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The Kissflow story

Everyone wanted good illustrations in the product.

✨ Beautiful 🧩 Consistent 🎯 Meaningful 🏷️ On-brand 😊 Friendly
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We tried every door.

DOOR 01

Hire an illustrator

Management ran the math: maybe 10 or 15 days of real illustration work a year. You can't fill a full-time seat with that.

CLOSED

DOOR 02

The graphics team

They're good. They're also booked solid for the next 2 quarters with their own roadmap.

CLOSED

DOOR 03

Freelancers

The quotes came back between $5,000 and $20,000. The affordable ones drew like clip art.

CLOSED
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What are the scenarios that match?

No results found — the one v4 illustration
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Kissflow v4 · Live today

1 illustration.
23 screens.

v4 shipped with a single illustration doing the job of 23. We kept reusing it because getting a second one meant reopening those 3 closed doors.

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Then came v5

A new design language.
Glassmorphism.

🛍️ A style you can't buy 📚 Stock libraries: nothing 🚪 3 doors still closed

So we built our own door.

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Every illustration is two decisions.

WHAT IT SAYS

The use case. Which moment is this, and what should the user feel? Changes with every illustration.

HOW IT LOOKS

Style, perspective, composition, lighting, color, mood. This never changes. This is the brand.

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The framework

Anatomy of an illustration prompt

An empty-state illustration for a search screen, shown when no results are found. A magnifying glass over empty space reads as "looking, nothing here yet."

01 USE CASE← the only line that changes

02 STYLE

Soft 3D glassmorphism. Glossy, frosted, translucent, never flat or cartoonish.

03 PERSPECTIVE

Slight 3/4 angle. Dimensional, but clean and front-facing.

04 COMPOSITION

Off-center hero, one accent element, generous negative space.

05 LIGHTING & DEPTH

Light from top-left, soft ground shadow for grounding.

06 COLOR

One accent hue on soft neutrals. Low saturation, airy, calm.

07 MOOD

Calm and purposeful. Friendly, light, unhurried.

01 changes every time · 02–07 never do

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Activity · Part 1 of 2

Draw anything you imagine.

Blank side of your sheet Pencil only Anything you can picture
02:00

click the timer to start (or press T)

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Activity · Part 2 of 2

Flip the sheet. Fill the circles.

Same pencil Same 2 minutes This time, a boundary
02:00

click the timer to start (or press T)

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What just happened

The blank page is a vague prompt.
The circle is the anatomy.

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The next challenge

How do we make it
consistent?

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See the magic on your mobile.

illustrations.myaiworks.in

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If you can describe it,
you can draw it.

1 use case + 6 locked decisions. That's the whole skill.

Vadivel · Director of Design, Kissflow

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Thank you!

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Over to you

Questions? Ask away.

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Before you leave

Tell me how it went.

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