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The best feature is often the one you remove🦕
When you’re building a dashboard or a website, it’s easy to just keep adding more options. Good product design is actually mostly about prioritization. Every extra element can distract the user.
Making things simple is always the hardest part, right?
How do you decide what to cut? Do you find it easy? Let’s chat below!
Spot on, Mark! 💯
We couldn't agree more. It’s the classic "less is more" trap. True premium UX is about ruthless prioritization.
Our golden rule? If a feature doesn't directly solve a core user pain point or speed up their workflow, it gets benched for version 2.0.
So true! The hardest part of product design is saying 'no' to good features to make room for the great ones. Striking that balance between robust data and cognitive load is what separates average products from seamless experiences. 🦕🔥
Thanks for sharing your take, Michael!
Totally agree – subtraction is one of the hardest design skills to develop. I usually ask 'what breaks if I remove this?' and if the answer is 'nothing much,' it goes. The tricky part is that adding feels like progress, while removing feels like going backwards, even when it's the opposite.
That paradox is so real 🙌
When deciding what to cut, I usually look at user flows and cognitive load. If a component doesn't actively help the user reach their main goal or if it causes decision fatigue during user testing, it's the first thing to go. It’s always a balance between "nice to have" and...
100%. If it causes decision fatigue, it’s out. Glad you liked the mountains!
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I designed EyeText 👁️, an eye-controlled communication experience for people who have difficulty speaking or using their hands.
Using eye tracking and intentional blinks, users can navigate a keyboard, create messages, and convert them into speech. The experience also includes personalized calibration and quick communication cards for everyday needs.
What excites me most about this project is how quickly an idea became reality. Using Figma Make, I was able to transform a concept into a working interactive experience with a single prompt.
Design, accessibility, and technology coming together to help people express themselves.
🔗 Live Demo:https://serif-modify-89640782.figma.site
🔗X / Twitter Post: https://x.com/Naghdaliyevaart/status/2067282836021776819?s=20
This hero section background lowered my cortisol, great work Nigar!
Little Voices is a keepsake of your kid's voice. It's for the silly, fleeting, unrepeatable bits, before they grow out of them. https://littlevoices.figma.site
I have thousands of photos and videos of my daughter, but barely any recordings of her voice. Voice memos get buried in a list, and I hardly go back to them. As she grows up , she’s changing faster than I can hold on to her.
So I built Little Voices for the Config Makeathon, but maybe more so for myself, and other parents who might feel the same way.
I've been using it with my daughter, and she loves hearing her own voice. She keeps becoming someone new, and now I get to hear every version of her, whenever I want.
What it does:
🎤 Catch a moment in seconds
📚 Each memory becomes a storybook card, marked by the age your kid was when you caught it
🗂️ Sift through the pile, browse by age like a time capsule, or search by keywords
💭 Prompts to help when you draw a blank
📈 See how often you record, gently — no streaks, no guilt
🧒 A separate collection for each kid
How I built it:
🎨 Figma Weave for the card art. I built a repeatable workflow that generated dozens of cards in a consistent style, instead of prompting one at a time.
✨ Figma Agents for design exploration and a simple design system. Figma-native agents felt like a true design collaborator that understood my context — directly fine-tuning iterated designs was what was missing in my Claude Code / Figma MCP workflows.
🧱 Figma Make to put it all together. The trick: ask it for a plan before executing anything. Reviewing the plan first meant the component came out right the first time, instead of three rebuilds later.
If you have your own version of this in your life, tell me about it in the comments. 🙌
Huge thanks to the Figma support team; I hit a publishing wall on both Sites and Community, and they personally unstuck both for me so I could ship this. This entry couldn't exist without them!
🎨 Figma Community file: https://www.figma.com/community/file/1648859345546148095
This is a great example of creative problem-solving. The final experience feels very polished.
The brief was mine.
The constraints were real.
OLIVI is a branding and UI/UX studio identity built without a client, which meant no excuses.
Case study thread coming.
Amazing!
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