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Consistency rarely feels exciting.
Most days, it looks ordinary.
You write one page.
Read a few chapters.
Learn one new thing.
Make one small improvement.
Nothing feels different.
But then weeks and months pass.
And suddenly, people call it progress.
What often gets overlooked is that success usually isn't one big moment.
It's a collection of small actions repeated long enough.
The challenge isn't knowing what to do.
It's continuing when the results aren't visible yet.
Looking back, some of the biggest changes in my life started with small habits.
What's one small habit that's made a big difference for you?
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FrameOrbit — Config Makeathon Submission 📸🌀
Sharing second project for the Config Makeathon: FrameOrbit.
https://cedar-thaw-04755246.figma.site/
Project published to the community.
FrameOrbit is a playful camera canvas experience where taking photos feels more spatial, visual, and alive.
The idea started from a simple question:
What if captured photos didn’t disappear into a hidden gallery, but stayed around your camera as part of the experience?
In FrameOrbit, the camera view sits in the center of a soft canvas. Every time the user captures a photo, it instantly appears as a framed image around the camera. As more photos are taken, the canvas starts to build a visual orbit of moments around the live camera view.
Users can:
Capture photos directly from the center camera frame
See each image appear instantly around the canvas
Apply different photo styles like Normal, Noir, Warm, Cool, Vivid, Fade, Retro, and Neon
Drag photos around the canvas
Tap any photo to open it in a cinematic full-screen viewer
Move between images using previous/next navigation
Save all captured images or reset the canvas
The goal was to make photo capturing feel less like a utility and more like a small creative ritual, a live memory board that grows with every shot.
Built with Figma Make, I focused on creating a polished interactive prototype with a soft visual system, floating photo cards, smooth viewer experience, and a simple flow that can be understood in seconds:
Capture → frame appears → build your orbit → explore your moments.
FrameOrbit turns the camera into a canvas. ✨
#ConfigMakeathon #FigmaMake #FrameOrbit #ProductDesign #UXDesign #UIDesign #CreativeTools #CameraApp #Prototype #Makeathon
Make sense
Nobody tells you that the hardest part of freelancing is the waiting.
Waiting for the right brief.
The right client.
The right moment to feel ready.
For a long time I treated momentum like something that arrives if you're patient enough.
This summer I'm done waiting for the current. I'd rather be it:)
So I made this.
A swimmer caught mid-stroke, blurred because she's moving, while the only thing holding still long enough to read is the word.
I built it backwards on purpose: the image is frozen but full of motion, and the text is the part that actually moves. A still that's all velocity, a motion that's all calm. That contrast is the whole feeling.
The process:
- Ideogram to generate the swimmer, motion blur and all
- Canva for grain and a bit of the moody texture
- Framer for the moving text, because if momentum is the theme, I wanted the motion to be real, not faked. Also because I'm spending this summer chasing more Framer work for Formeta, so I figured I'd practice what I preach
- Screen recorded the final piece to capture the motion
Movement as meditation. The work moves when I do.
What's the energy you're swimming into this summer?
The motion blur still juxtaposed with the text looks super sick!
Sharing my first progress, I'm starting to focus building skill with framer, thanks for the support🔥 @Framer
The big bold serif wordmark with the copyright symbol is a strong typographic choice. That kind of editorial confidence makes the tagline below it land harder. Keep going with the daily practice.
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