08/21/2026
If youāve ever wondered what actually goes into designing a roomā¦ itās mostly me with 100 screenshots, boards and IG saves open trying to figure out which idea is the idea. š
Hereās a little look at the messy middle, and how Iāve been using Adobe Firefly boards to organize all the inspiration, references, and half-formed thoughts into one clear direction.
My camera roll is a disaster, I have way too many saves open, and thereās usually too many inspo boards for it to even make sense. Itās definitely not the best method but this is the part where the ideas start taking shape!!
Then I dump everything into one place:Ā screenshots, saves, magazine scans, all of it.
Once itās in a Firefly Board, I can actually start moving things around and seeing what belongs together instead of just staring at 100 random images in my camera roll. My team can jump in and move things around with me too, which has significantly cut down on files named āFINAL_v4_actualfinal.ā š
Before I formally design anything, Iāll generate a few directions from the moodboard and let the client react to those first. Itās a whole lot easier (and cheaper) to kill a bad idea here than three weeks into sourcing.
And because Iām using Adobe Firefly, I feel better knowing itās trained on licensed and public domain contentā¦not somebody elseās portfolio getting scraped to build a client concept.
Board on the left. Room on the right.
This is the payoff. No six-week back-and-forth. No āthis isnāt what I imaginedā once weāve spent weeks sourcing, designing and rendering. When the concept is clear from the start, the rest of the project goes a lot smoother!
If your inspiration is currently living in 100 different places too, try pulling it all into an Adobe Firefly Board for your next project. And save this for the next time your camera roll starts getting out of control š
