Backyard Gems is an app to get people to explore their communities and protect their local "gems".

Started in Figma Weave, went to Figma Make, back to Figma Weave, then back to Figma Make, then to Figma Design the back to Figma Weave. Also would copy chats/prompts from each product to use in another product during my workflow.

Why all that? Mainly the visuals lol. I thought generating a brand system then using that in Figma Make would make things easier, but there was still needed adjustments. And there was alot of adjustments and generations to get some visuals and videos that I liked/could tolerate.

Also saw a question on another submission about if a video was made in Figma Weave, and I thought, why not as I was concerned about how to best portray the aim of the app that I couldn't do with just a screen recording. So copied app design from Make, plopped into Design, so I could port it into Weave.

The best thing to do is see the app for yourself here: https://listen-stuck-71113393.figma.site/

Community link (with chat history): https://www.figma.com/community/file/1647328303408231490

cool way to surface local gems, nice work!

Brutalist architects exposed raw concrete because hiding it cost more. What's our excuse? We just like it:) A year ago, @Ansh Jamdagni and I built Loopin as a Framer template for a cassette brand that exists only as a thought experiment. We thought of making a nostalgic yet futuristic product website and neobrutalist design was our go for this dreamy product. We posted it on Contra expecting nothing in particular. A few months later, Other Health Ventures, a VC firm backing health and performance startups, got in touch. They were tired of looking like every other fund, had seen Loopin and wanted their site built with the same instincts less navy, more hard borders and Archivo Black. They've become one of our favourite clients since. A product designer later asked for her portfolio in the same language. No brief beyond "that, but for me." What we didn't clock until the third one: this style takes more decisions than minimal design, not fewer. Minimalism hides things. This doesn't. Every border, every oversized headline, every quiet corner is a choice that has to land on its own. Tools, for the curious: — Framer for all three — GPT for Loopin's product shots (not real cassette players unfortunately, several people have asked) — Mostly restraint, applied unevenly on purpose:) What's a design choice you've made that looks effortless but took the most thinking?

Nice work. The colors and elements are used in a good way.