Humaaans started with a simple annoyance. Illustrations of people looked great until you needed a different pose, a different skin tone, a different anything. Then you were stuck. So I drew people as parts instead of pictures. Heads, torsos, legs, arms, all built to snap together.

The idea was that you shouldn't have to be me to use them. Anybody could remix a person and build a whole scene, no drawing required.

The trick was making every piece line up. A head from here had to sit on a body from there without looking broken. So I built the whole thing on a shared grid, every joint in the same spot, every part interchangeable by design.

Get that right and the math does the rest. A handful of heads times a handful of bodies times a handful of poses is suddenly thousands of people you never had to draw one by one.

I put them online free and mostly forgot about it. Then I started seeing them everywhere. Landing pages, pitch decks, onboarding flows, empty states. Designers dropped Humaaans into products for years, and half the time I only found out because someone sent me a screenshot.

That was the whole point. People you didn't have to ask permission to use, in a style anybody could bend to their thing.