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I built a virtual Ikebana experience. It's called Project: Ikebana. 🌸
It's the first time I've ever built something with gesture controls, worked with 3D assets, and vibecoded this much with Figma Make.
Try it here!
Ikebana is the traditional Japanese art of flower arranging. It literally translates to "giving life to flowers."
Project: Ikebana is my attempt to bring that idea into a digital space.
You can create floral arrangements in both 2D and 3D, using either hand gestures or traditional mouse controls.
The part I love most: the little moments of whimsy.
Sliding Japanese fusuma doors.
Tiny kaomojis q(≧▽≦q).
Petal-shaped gesture tracking markers.
This project started with a bunch of moodboarding into FigJam board, grew through 100+ make iterations, and somehow led me into learning 3D workflows, gesture interactions, databases, debugging, and a whole lot more.
I used Weave to create many of the visual assets and models, then brought everything together in Figma Make with Supabase powering the project's content library.
I love how tools like Weave and Make encourage you to focus on what something should feel like, not just how to build it.
If there's one thing I'd love people to take away from this project:
Try something new.
You might surprise yourself.
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Did you know your home reflects how much you read?
Not a metaphor. A literal one.
Add a book. Set a timer. Watch your apartment slowly come alive as you read. Dust clears in real time. Rooms bloom from neglect to warmth. Stop reading and watch it all fade back.
The Problem
Most reading trackers are lists. Cold. Forgettable. They record what you have not done without making you feel anything about it. You open the app, see a number, close the app. Nothing changes inside you.
Shelf Life is built around a different belief. Your habits should live somewhere. They should breathe. They should have consequences you can see.
Your bedroom holds the book you read before sleep. Your kitchen holds the article you meant to finish over coffee. Your study holds the essay you keep putting off. Read consistently and each space blooms back to life through an organic dust clearing animation driven by your actual reading time. Neglect your reading and the dust returns. Your home becomes a mirror of your habits. Honest and quiet and impossible to ignore.
I deliberately chose not to let users upload or read books inside the app. The moment you can read inside a tracker it stops being a tracker and starts competing with the experience of actually holding a book. Shelf Life honours the ritual of reading without replacing it.
How It Was Built
I started with a design philosophy before I started with a prompt. Warmth. Craft. Human first. Every decision was made to make the user feel something not just complete a task.
The isometric apartment and all ten room images including the neglected and bloomed states for each of the five rooms were generated entirely using Figma Weave. I used Figma for rapid design ideation and layout exploration before moving into Figma Make.
In Figma Make I built the full app in React and TypeScript. The core technical challenge was the dust clearing animation. It uses an SVG mask system with organic circular spots growing via requestAnimationFrame running in parallel with the reading timer. Each spot has its own delay and duration so the reveal feels natural and alive rather than mechanical. The same spots reverse in mirror order when the room returns to neglected. The animation runs both ways. Forward when you read. Backward when you stop.
Room specific ambient music plays in each space. The bedroom has soft rain and piano. The kitchen has morning acoustic warmth. The living room has fireplace crackle. The study is near silence. Each room sounds like it feels.
Tools Used
Figma Weave for AI image generation across all ten room backgrounds
Figma for design ideation and layout
Figma Make for the full app built in React and TypeScript
The Moment That Matters
Start a reading timer. Watch your room slowly clean itself in real time. Organic dust spots grow across the image revealing the bloomed version beneath. It is not a progress bar. It is not a percentage. It is your home breathing back to life because you chose to read.
When the timer ends the room holds its bloomed state then gradually returns to neglect. The direction of the animation tells you everything about your relationship with reading that week.
Most people go quiet when they watch it happen for the first time.
Excellent presentation 👏
Kids don’t defeat fear by reading advice.
They understand it better when they can see it, shape it, shrink it, rename it, and laugh at it.
That’s the idea behind Monster Movie Studio — a cinematic interactive cartoon experience where children turn big fears into funny little animated monsters.
Instead of building another dashboard or basic kids app, I wanted this to feel like a playable cartoon episode.
A child can:
→ create a clay-like 3D monster
→ choose what made the monster feel big
→ drag magical tools onto it
→ direct a tiny cartoon scene
→ shrink the scary shadow
→ turn a roar into music
→ make the monster dance
→ transform it into a tiny helper
→ print a movie poster
→ share a gentle parent note
The whole experience is designed around one principle:
Every action should speak.
Not just buttons.
Not static cards.
Not a form with cute colors.
A tap should change the scene.
A drag should transform the monster.
A completed action should feel cinematic.
A child should feel like they are directing a tiny animated movie.
Built with Figma Make for the Config Makeathon.
Monster Movie Studio — turn big fears into funny little cartoons.
Love how visual this feels. Not a normal app, more like an interactive animated experience.
Hey everyone, excited to be joining the Config Makeathon ☺️
I wanted to create a place where people can anonymously share how their day went and read what others are going through. Sometimes you have something on your mind but no one to tell it to, Dear Diary gives people a space to feel heard and connected.
You can write one entry per day and receive a random flower as a reward. As you keep writing, you collect flowers and eventually unlock a bouquet you can share. The calendar lets you look back at previous days and explore thoughts and stories from people around the world.
Dear Diary is live, tell us what's on your mind ✨
Love seeing different approaches to the Makeathon. This is a thoughtful and well-executed project.
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