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Day 4 — turning Design Crit into a working prototype 🛠️
Until today Design Crit was just static screens. I moved it into Figma Make to make it actually work — and the prototype taught me three things.
The font mystery 🔍
Everything came out bolder than I designed it. My first thought was "I missed a weight." But I checked — I'd loaded every Satoshi weight, italics included. I did everything right.
So I went digging, and it turns out this is a very common problem: designers hit font weight and rendering mismatches across Figma all the time. There's no official word on Make specifically, but Figma has confirmed custom fonts aren't fully supported in Figma Sites (its sibling product) — so my bet is the font just doesn't survive the jump cleanly here either.
One tip if you're moving designs into a prototype: check your type right after importing. Don't assume it came over the way you built it.
It's weirdly clever 🤖
I gave Make a single screen. It built a full clickable prototype anyway — and even invented the "open post" view on its own, figuring out from the "Answer" button that a detail page should exist. I reworked it later, but the initiative was genuinely impressive.
It flattens structure 📐
I sent it comments with a clear shape — name, "what's working," "what to try." Make collapsed each one into a single paragraph. The structure I'd built on purpose just disappeared.
The pattern all week: Make is great at guessing and filling, shaky at keeping the structure you built on purpose.
Still building. More soon ✨
Full write-up and screenshots in my doc → https://s.craft.me/V3oiZtNlZ41AYJ
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It started with a moment at work. I was whiteboarding with one of our engineers, and the conversation felt faster, clearer, and more productive. That made me realize I wanted the same kind of experience with my coding agents, without sending screenshots, typing long explanations, and still not quite getting what I meant.
So me and @Carlneil Domkam built ScribblePrompt in Figma Make: a tool that lets you whiteboard with an agent, so ideas start as sketches, not walls of text.
If you like design tools that make ideation feel more natural, we’d love for you to check it out.
Features:
- Whiteboarding tools
- Sketch Context for Figma Make
- MCP for Claude and Cursor
- Sketch Assistant — generate sketches
- Responsive across desktop and iPad
Tools used:
- FigJam for ideation and brainstorming
- Figma Make for prototyping and implementation of the sketching tool, sketch context, and audio transcription
- Figma Design for UI design tweaks
- Figma Weave for logo generation and storyboard references
- Anthropic API for Sketch Context and MCP
- Gemini API for the sketching assistant:
It's been a fun 2 weeks participating in this hackathon! See you at Figma Config! 🚀
I built something for my mom.
We talk every day. But we've never made anything together. Not once.
So I built KINSHIP — a place where two people across any generation gap build a private visual language that only they share.
No typing. No reacting. Just drawing.
You arrive. Type your name. That's the door. A prompt surfaces — "the kitchen table" — and you both draw blind. Neither sees the other's version until both submit.
Then the screen goes dark. Both drawings develop slowly, like photographs in a darkroom. Hers. Mine. Same word. Different worlds.
Over time the archive grows. Every word you've ever drawn together. Your private dialect. Nobody else has this. Nobody else ever could.
We have six words now. And I know her better than years of conversation ever showed me. MAMA LOVED IT.
TRY IT : HERE
This isn't a design tool. It's a correspondence. A private language. Proof that you finally understand each other. It works for parents and kids, mentors and students, grandparents and grandchildren — any two people across a generation gap.
Built in @Figma Make with React, Supabase, and an old notebook aesthetic (cream paper, ink strokes, hand-drawn feel).
KINSHIP — a language only two people speak.
Love the design
Have you ever wanted to send hidden, personal notes to friends that feel far more special than plain text?
For this year’s Config Makeathon, I built Secret Letter Workshop — a web-based cipher workspace to write, encrypt and decode private parchment-style messages.
More than a regular encryption tool, it is a fun space for people to create and share private messages together.
Two ways to create your secret note
🔹 Pre-built cipher presets: 5 ready-to-use encryption algorithms. Pick one instantly to encode and decode your secret messages without setup.
🔹 Custom cipher builder: Design your unique encoding & decoding logic from scratch, fully tailor the secret rule to your own exclusive symbol system.
Where you can use it in daily life
🔸 Pass private little notes to close friends without anyone else reading them
🔸 Hide soft personal thoughts inside your digital journal, locked behind simple cipher logic
🔸 Write hidden surprise notes for birthdays, anniversaries and meetups
🔸 Create exclusive coded messages for small friend meetups or trip group chats
Tools
• Brainstorming & Image generation: Gemini
• Style inspiration: Pinterest
• Design & Vectorize: Figma design
• Website development: Figma Make
🧐 The dancing silhouettes carry a Victorian detective’s secret script
😶🌫️ Unlocking text is a mirrored way to lock it
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