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Where bedtime becomes the greatest adventure

A 0→1 children's storytelling world with warm art and gentle AI narration.

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Role
Founder & Product Designer
Timeline
2026 — Present
Victoria & Atlas home screen — a girl hugging Atlas, a large emerald dragon, in a starry meadow beside the 'Ready for tonight's story?' hero
Problem

Parents want bedtime stories that build character and calm — not just another screen with a jarring interface or a harsh, robotic voice reading aloud.

Solution

A treasured-picture-book experience: warm, consistent characters, a cozy reading flow, and a tuned AI voice — ViVi — gentle enough to actually send a child to sleep.

Overview

Parents want a bedtime story that calms a child and builds character, not another jarring app or a robotic voice that keeps everyone awake. I designed and built Victoria & Atlas: warm, consistent characters, a cozy reading flow, and ViVi, an AI narrator tuned to be gentle enough to send a child to sleep. It's live at victoriaandatlas.com.

What I did
  • Set the 0→1 product direction, brand and art direction.
  • Designed the nightly reading and playlist flow.
  • Built and shipped the product myself with AI tools instead of handing off a spec.
  • Tuned ViVi's narration for calm.
How I built it

I prototyped and built the site and reader in code, using AI as a design partner. Claude helped shape some of the early concepts, and v0 handled most of the heavier code, which I reshaped by hand for the warm, picture-book feel. It runs on Next.js and Vercel.

What I decided by hand: character consistency, the art, the pacing and tone of the reading flow, the narration voice, and which AI output to keep or throw away.

Built withv0, Claude, Next.js, Vercel

The original pencil sketch of Victoria hugging Atlas the dragon under a full moon, with a castle, constellations, and a field of flowers
How it started: the original pencil sketch
The finished illustration of Victoria hugging Atlas, the emerald dragon, in a moonlit meadow with a glowing castle behind them
Where it landed: the finished artwork
The 'Build tonight's lineup' bedtime playlist: queue stories with quick picks and an illustrated story grid, then begin bedtime
Where it lives now: the bedtime story playlist

0 → 1

Product, brand & art

ViVi

Tuned AI narration

Live

victoriaandatlas.com

The 'One Story, Start to Finish' flow — read, reward, keepsake, and reflect steps with a story reader preview
Meet the Characters — illustrated cards for Victoria, Violet, Atlas, and Pip
The full-screen story reader for 'The Dragon Who Collected Smiles' with ViVi narrating each page aloud

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