What happens after I send a Design Genie brief?

Sending a brief takes you straight to your studio, where the round runs in the background.

The stages

1. 1Queued, then Designing: Genie reads the brief, the occasion and its pages, and writes each design as a complete specification: its name, palette, fonts, wording, ornaments, a free envelope intro and effect, and the art direction for the paintings. Each design in a round is its own idea, with a different scene, cover composition, fonts and reading of your colours.
2. 2Painting: the hero and companion characters, the cover, a ground for the inner pages, the cut-out decorations, a picture for each function on the schedule page, and the design's own opening.
3. 3Ready: the drafts appear, each playing on a phone frame.

While it runs, the studio shows placeholder phones being painted and the line "You can leave this page; we e-mail you when they are ready." Beside them, featured designs of your occasion drift past in case one of those is already right.

How long it takes

Usually a few minutes, often under ten. Bringing a cover to life as a film adds a few more minutes, and is done only for the design you pick, with your yes.

How you hear

• An e-mail, "Your designs are ready", with a picture of each cover and See them whole.
• An app notification, if you use the Nimanto app.

The e-mail also reminds you that the design stays private and that there is nothing to pay for looking.

If a painting fails

A cover that could not be painted is painted once more before the round is shown. If the painter is having trouble, the round waits on the painting screen and Nimanto paints it again by itself over the following hours; the ready e-mail comes with the painted round. A design that still arrives without its artwork offers Paint again, free and without using a revision.