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Aura - The World's First Emotion-Adaptive Interface System
Designed with Google Stitch.
As a developer, I've used plenty of AI tools that can generate screens, but I was curious about something different with Stitch:
Could I use it to create an experience-first interface that felt alive rather than just another website?
That question became AURA — an experimental emotion-adaptive interface that transforms its visual environment based on how users want to feel.
Instead of approaching the challenge as a traditional landing page, I wanted to explore a more immersive direction. What if an interface could behave like a living environment? What if changing an emotional state could alter the atmosphere, motion, lighting, color palette, and overall experience?
To test that idea, I designed AURA as a digital experience where users can explore emotional worlds such as Joy, Peace, Wonder, Creativity, Ambition, and Reflection.
How Stitch fit into the workflow
I didn't start with prompts, I started with ideas.
The first step was sketching rough wireframes and visual concepts to establish the structure and flow of the experience. I then created a custom design.md document containing the creative direction, emotional worlds, visual principles, motion goals, typography, color systems, and overall artistic vision for the project.
After importing those references into Stitch, the process became incredibly fluid. The streaming generation experience was one of the most impressive parts of the workflow. Instead of waiting for a final output, I could literally watch the interface take shape directly on the canvas and react to ideas in real time.
Once the foundation was generated, I spent most of my time using in-place AI edits.
I'd select sections, experiment with different visual treatments, adjust atmosphere, refine layouts, introduce new interactions, and push the experience closer to the vision I had in mind without having to restart from scratch.
That iterative loop felt much closer to actual design work than traditional prompting.
Motion was another area where Stitch stood out.
Since the challenge theme was "Build interfaces that feel alive," I focused heavily on creating smooth transitions, hover interactions, atmospheric movement, environmental effects, and immersive visual storytelling.
The result feels less like a conventional website and more like a digital art installation.
New Stitch features I leaned on
📄 Imported custom design.md creative direction document
📄 Imported rough wireframe concepts and visual references
🌊 Streaming generations directly to the canvas
⏩ In-place AI edits using prompts and point-and-click interactions
🎥 Motion-rich interactions, hover states, and immersive transitions
🎨 Rapid visual experimentation and iteration
🚀 Export-ready workflow for deployment
Feedback on Stitch
Most AI workflows involve repeatedly prompting, waiting, evaluating, and starting over. Stitch felt different, The streaming canvas made the process feel much more collaborative and interactive. Watching designs appear in real time created a stronger sense of momentum and made iteration feel natural.
The ability to import references and then refine sections through in-place edits was probably my favorite part of the experience. Rather than constantly rewriting long prompts, I could focus on improving specific parts of the design while preserving everything that was already working.
As someone who enjoys experimenting with interface concepts, that workflow felt significantly closer to how designers and developers naturally think.
One feature I'd love to see expanded further is even more granular visual control directly within the canvas, allowing creators to tweak generated elements while maintaining the speed of the AI workflow.
Overall, Stitch helped shorten the distance between a rough idea and a polished interactive experience.
Live Prototype: https://8d2a7837-aura-living-interface-system.netlify.app/
Link to Stitch: https://stitch.withgoogle.com/projects/6682479894200923414
This is awesome
Kindra is coming together nicely.
A Framer template built for DNA testing companies, paternity, maternity, sibling, grandparentage, gender reveal and more.
Progress so far:
✅ Homepage
✅ Services pages index and detail pages done
✅ Test kits pages index and detail pages done
✅ Insights, 12 articles, 6 categories, fully CMS powered
A few more pages left then it drops on the Framer Marketplace.
Follow along
I joined the Google Stitch x Contra Challenge by creating LÚMIA Beauty, a landing page for a fictional premium makeup and fragrance brand, built around the challenge theme: creating interfaces that feel alive.
The idea was to build an immersive, glossy, highly visual beauty experience where the interface didn’t feel like a static e-commerce page, but like a brand universe full of light, motion, and texture.
For the project, I created a complete visual identity with a pink, shiny, glowy color palette. I also worked with a collection of AI-generated product and model images, including perfumes, lip gloss, blush, editorial visuals, and the LÚMIA Beauty logo.
The landing page includes:
- A hero section with a liquid, glossy, interactive background that reacts to mouse movement.
- Product sections for perfumes, blush, and lip gloss.
- A “Shop by Aura” experience to discover products through different visual moods.
- Cards with hover states, glow, shimmer, and subtle motion.
- An editorial section with models and a beauty campaign aesthetic.
- A ritual builder to combine products into a beauty routine.
- Reviews, FAQ, final CTA, and responsive footer.
- Final deploy published on Netlify.
I used Google Stitch as a central part of the workflow. First, I prepared a DESIGN.md file to define the brand’s visual direction: colors, style, tone, components, motion, layout, and glossy/liquid aesthetic. Then I uploaded the product images, model images, and logo so Stitch could generate a landing page that felt consistent with the LÚMIA Beauty identity.
From there, I used Stitch to create the first version of the page, iterate on specific sections, adjust the composition, improve the hero, add visual effects, and include interactions such as motion, hover states, shimmer, liquid backgrounds, and cursor-reactive behavior.
After that, I exported the project using the copy-code-to-clipboard option. From there, I worked on the generated file to adjust specific parts of the page, especially structure details, responsive behavior, and small visual refinements. Once I had the final version, I inserted the finished index.html file back into the Stitch project board to keep the final result documented within the same workflow.
I also prepared two videos for the submission:
1) A video showing my workflow inside Stitch.
2) A demo video showing the final LÚMIA Beauty experience.
What I liked most about Stitch was how quickly it helped me move from a brand idea to a visually solid interface. The DESIGN.md workflow helped a lot with consistency, and the in-context edits made the process feel closer to designing directly on the product.
As feedback, I would love to see Stitch keep improving fine control over responsive details, specific animations, and component consistency, but the overall experience was very fluid and useful for prototyping a high-impact landing page in a short amount of time.
Live project:
https://LÚMIABeauty.netlify.app/
Stitch project:
https://stitch.withgoogle.com/projects/4725329965472555948
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Wow, Carola, this is an absolutely stunning project! The "Shop by Aura" feature is such a creative way to lean into the "interfaces that feel alive" theme, and a cursor-reactive, liquid glossy background sounds beautiful.
I love that you used a meticulous DESIGN.md file to keep...
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