Day 2: The idea is starting to feel real.
I'm participating in Contra's Config Makeathon.
Yesterday was about choosing what to build.
Today was about choosing how it should feel.
Spent the day exploring the visual direction, refining the first screens, and asking a question I think...
opened a blank doc this morning for the Config Makeathon.
wrote down every idea that came to mind.
then started crossing them out.
too small. too obvious. already exists. nobody cares.
got to one that made me stop.
it's a problem hundreds of millions of people deal with. every single...
For the #stitchchallenge, I designed a futuristic AR-powered helmet shopping experience. not another dashboard, not another SaaS landing page. Something that actually feels like a product from 2030.
Cinematic. Mobile-first. Dark editorial UI with bold accents.
Built and iterated...
Duolingo has 500M users. The app itself is average. The psychology behind it is not.
Three things they built that keep people coming back every day:
The streak. Losing a 100 day streak feels worse than never starting. That is loss aversion engineered into a UI element.
The mascot...
