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MAKE DNA — Visual Prompt Genetics Lab
Tagline - Turning prompt anxiety into confident, shareable prompt genomes.
Project Summary
MAKE DNA is a visual prompt genetics lab for designers who work with AI but keep running into the same problem: prompts feel random, outputs are unpredictable, and there’s no reliable way to understand why something worked or share that success with others. I built this project to turn that frustrating guessing game into a more structured, visual, and reusable system.
In MAKE DNA, prompts are built from modular “genes” such as App Type, Visual Style, Color Mood, Interaction, Layout, and Output Format. As each gene changes, the live prompt updates in real time, and mutation comparisons show exactly how one shift affects the result. When a combination feels strong, it can be pinned as a collectible DNA card and added to the public Genome Wall, where others can discover it, remix it, and build on it.
The experience is designed to move users from I’m just guessing to I have a trusted genome I can share and evolve. It makes prompting feel less like trial and error and more like a creative system you can actually trust.
I started with Figma Make to generate the core interactive prototype and mutation logic from style references. Then I used Agent to refine layout, spacing, and overall polish. Weave helped generate the DNA-inspired visuals and textures, while Figma Prototype brought the interactions to life - gene selection, live mutations, pinning, and remixing. I also created the technical spec using MCP with Figma and Codex.
MAKE DNA solves a daily pain point for designers working with AI: confusion, wasted time, and isolated prompt knowledge. It creates emotional relief by turning uncertainty into confidence, and it adds a community layer by transforming individual prompting into collective craft.
More than a prototype - it’s a new way of thinking about prompt design as modular, visual, and shareable.
Tools Used
Figma Make, Agent(Beta), Figma Weave, MCP - codex
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Live project Link: https://make-dna.figma.site/
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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 👏
For the #ConfigMakeathon, I built Rollroom 🎲
A desktop-only backgammon web app where you can create a room, share one link, play live 1v1, chat in real time, use voice commands, or play against a bot.
I built it with Figma Make, using Figma’s AI workflow to move from interface design to a working interactive prototype.
The idea: make a classic board game instantly playable online, without accounts, setup, or friction.
Live project:
https://poise-nest-20913441.figma.site
Good work!
Project 01 — Thought Collapse: When Text Meets a Black Hole
Live Version : https://primer-dull-24011691.figma.site/
Love seeing different approaches to the Makeathon. This is a thoughtful and well-executed project.
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