Guest · Ep 088
Ron Baranov on Fast Hours.
On Fast Hours
Creative Workflow Advocate. Dreaming, breathing, and obsessed with the ability to solve creative problems using AI workflows. Whenever I have some spare time, I create AI films, I get excited every single time by the ability to create whatever I want while drinking an espresso in my home office. I come from over a decade of experience in video production for major brands, and I'm happy to share my thoughts on bringing storytelling fundamentals into the AI creation landscape.
The 30-second version
- 01
Learn Weave by reverse engineering: open a shared workflow link, duplicate it into your files and see what's inside. That's how Ron learned the platform.
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Let the LLM write the prompts: give it the creative direction, the inputs and the outputs, Ron's 'contract', and it writes the image-to-image prompts for you.
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Run one prompt through several image models at once: each model reads the same prompt differently, and you apply taste to pick the result.
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Enterprise work is mostly the same task with different inputs, so build repeatable tools, though Ron still calls one-off creative workflows completely valid.
The episode
How a Figma Weave Insider Gets Creative Teams to One Click
ft. Ron Baranov
Episode 88 brings on Ron Baranov, a Creative Workflow Advocate at Figma Weave, to show how enterprise creative teams turn hours of workflow building into one-click tools. He demos one prompt across six image models, an LLM writing camera-angle and loop-animation prompts, a locked-style illustration tool, the Figma node, and Gen Effect custom effects, while Rory discovers Weave's version history live.
Open the episodeRon's stack, as they told it
- Figma Weave (Weavy) ▲ Rates it
Ron's daily platform: prompts, LLM nodes, iterators, shared tools and app mode for enterprise creative teams
- Figma ▲ Rates it
The Figma node links Weave assets to Figma frames, and Weave tools run inside Figma itself
- GPT Image / ChatGPT Images ▲ Rates it
Ron's pick of six image models' results for his overhead shot, then edited image-to-image
- Kling ▲ Rates it
One of six video models in Ron's demo; added the day before and 'did a pretty nice job'
Ron, on the record
- 01 What sits behind every one-click AI workflow
“Behind that there are hours of hours of clicking and trying and iterating and not understanding what's not working and trying to solve it. So there are so many clicks before you get to the position of a one click”
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- 02 An LLM node writing camera-angle prompts for him
“What's amazing about it is that I didn't write the prompts. I didn't write the prompts. I only gave it the creative direction role. And I told it, what are the inputs? What are the outputs? I did a contract with it.”
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- 03 Which steps of a workflow stay human
“So we speak about it all the time about the parts we keep for ourselves and most of the time it changes, but it will be the creative direction and the creative choice and the places where you need to apply taste.”
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- 04 What creatives should lean into now
“We say that the creative workflow building is the new literacy. I believe in that. Like this is the place things are going in my opinion.”
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