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I have created 'TrendVerse'. A webApp as a fun and interactive dashboard without looking like a dashboard. 😊
TrendVerse
A living space for culture intelligence — built in Figma Make
The Problem
Culture moves fast. Brand strategists, creators, and marketers open Google Trends, Exploding Topics, TikTok Creative Center, and Reddit — every single morning — and still feel behind. Not because the data is missing. Because every existing tool shows you culture as a spreadsheet. Static. Cold. Disconnected from how trends actually feel.
The Insight
There's a specific anxiety people carry every day — the dread of being late to culture. No tool has ever been built around that feeling. Every platform gives you data. None of them give you a sense of where culture is alive right now, and where it's already dying.
The Idea
What if a dashboard didn't feel like one?
TrendVerse is a spatial intelligence tool built inside an aurora-themed canvas. Every trend is a sphere. Size communicates stage. Movement communicates momentum. You don't search — you drift through culture the way you'd navigate a living space.
How It Works
Every sphere exists across five lifecycle stages: Birth, Rising, Peaking, Declining, and Faded. The bigger the sphere, the stronger the trend. The smallest ones are nearly gone.
Click any sphere and it opens up — showing you velocity and the exact platforms where that trend is growing or dying. Twitter, TikTok, Reddit, YouTube — all in one view, one click, zero tab switching.
Real World Use Case
You're a brand strategist on Monday morning. Instead of opening four tools and stitching together a picture, you open TrendVerse. You spot a mid-sized sphere in your category — velocity climbing, cross-platform traction. You brief your team on it before it peaks. That's not just faster. That's a different kind of advantage.
The Figma Ecosystem
Figma Make powered everything — the spatial canvas, sphere lifecycle, physics, and real-time interaction logic. The submission video was built entirely in Figma Weave. TrendVerse lives fully inside the Figma ecosystem, from product to presentation.
The Shift
Most trend tools make you feel like an analyst. TrendVerse makes you feel like an explorer. When you move through culture spatially, you stop thinking about what to copy — and start thinking about where things are heading. That's not a UI improvement. That's a perspective shift.
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