Persicope, Asset Library WIP
How I'm building an asset library tool to implement across the business
ROLE
Product Designer
DURATION
Projected completion start of Q3
TOOLS
Claude Code, Pencil.dev, Vercel, Supabase
TEAM
Myself, with design and engineering reviews
What is Periscope?
A fast, keyboard-driven asset library for the design team and eventually the business. My goal is to make finding, using, and downloading assets accessible to everyone.
Periscope is a personal project I am designing and shipping agentically.
The library nobody wants to open
The current asset library has unusable architecture, impossible navigation, no filters, a search bar that doesn't work, and no breadcrumbs. Latest assets are buried, and it takes an expedition to try and find them.
A workaround is to go into Sharepoint and guess what folders are named. If this fails, pester the brand designer to share the recent assets with me.
Why I'm rebuilding it
I wanted to build something that solves a real user pain-point and can benefit both the design team, and the business in the long-run.
Periscope is built and designed around ease of use and leads with semantic search (type "wings", get wings), multiple view modes because everyone scans differently, and to handle downloads, exports, and background removal directly in the tool.
It currently costs £1 a month to run, and the switch over could save the business a handsome bit of change.
How it's built
The backend and repo are already built in Supabase, which is also used for auth and vector search. Replicate AI for generating image embeddings to make the semantic search, planning and developing with Claude Code and Impeccable design skills, and then designed in Pencil.dev. I'm deploying it in our Vercel sandbox to then test it with real users.
Where it's going
I've already had buy-in from the design team, and word is slowly starting to spread that I've been tinkering with something.
Short term: replaces the current asset library for the design team, with a Figma plugin allowing us to use new photography in our designs.
Longer term: the one place anyone at Nando's pulls approved photography with ease, and saying goodbye to yet another third party tool.
Constantly tinkering
This is a very much work in progress and I'll be constantly updating this page with advancements, and eventually prototypes.