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Introducing Cogs & Co.
It's a multiplayer machine building game, where you can play with friends or watch others play!
I've grown up playing games such as Fantastic Contraption, and took the inspiration from that. Drag parts, build weird machines, and complete the levels before your competition does.
I first started using Figma Make, and built out a base. I then took that into GitHub, pulled it into my computer, then continue with Claude Code - Fable 5. Once I was satisfied with the mechanics, I browsed Figma templates to find a great UI. Once I found something I liked, I used the Figma MCP to lay out the ground work for UI and UX.
A little back and forth and testing, and we now have a a complete game where you can play and enjoy with your friends!
Check it out at https://www.cogsandco.com/
Happy building!
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PostBox 📮
Bringing back the joy of waiting for mail 💌
A digital mailbox designed for wonder, anticipation, and connection 📬
As a kid, I waited all day to come back home to check our mail box. Waiting for surprises from family and friends.
PostBox is a playful digital mailbox that brings back the excitement of waiting for real mail!
Instead of instant messages, users send colorful postcards that arrive after a random delay, turning communication into a memorable experience. Designed with a childlike, joyful aesthetic inspired by paper letters, stamps, and illustrated postcards.
PostBox creates anticipation, surprise, and emotional connection in a world of instant notifications. The goal is to transform everyday messaging into meaningful moments people remember.
We are all, need sometimes to get back to basic, old time memories.
The Creation Process 🧠
1. The Idea 💡
While traveling around the world, I found myself exhausted by endless instant messages and emotional texting. I started missing the old feeling of anticipation — the excitement of waiting for a letter or postcard to arrive.
2. Sketching the Concept 📜
I grabbed a blank sheet of paper and sketched my vision: a playful digital mailbox that would bring back the joy of waiting and discovering messages.
3. Building the Foundation 📨
Using Figma Make and a carefully crafted prompt, I generated the initial version of the product and established the core user experience.
4. Refining the Experience 🧸
I iterated on the design based on my original sketches, focusing on a simple, childlike, and memorable aesthetic. Every detail was designed to evoke nostalgia, curiosity, and emotional connection.
5. Bringing It to Life ✏️
All animations and visual assets were created using Figma Weave. I combined generated images and motion elements to create a magical and engaging experience.
6. Share the Joy 🤩
Finally, I shared the project with the Figma community and friends to gather feedback and spread the experience of meaningful, anticipation-driven communication.
You are welcome to give it a try and reminds yourself of all those memories
The random delay mechanic is such a clever design choice. It's what actually recreates the physical mail experience instead of just mimicking the aesthetics. The illustrated world you built around it really sells the whole feeling.
Imagine a Figma plugin that guides your creative direction simply by selecting the vibe. Ambitious? Yep! This is just a taste of what's to come!
I have to checkout more of the figma weave.
Atlas of Forgotten Queens
Six queens. Six worlds. Countless untold stories.
History remembers kings. It often forgets queens.
The idea | Atlas of Forgotten Queens is an interactive visual-storytelling project that reimagines six historical women rulers — Zenobia, Nefertiti, Dihya, Tamara, Roxelana, and Artemisia I — through a symbolic, narrative-driven lens. Rooted in historical research across different cultures and eras, it focuses on influential women whose stories have been overlooked in traditional history.
The approach | Rather than presenting history as a fixed reconstruction, the project translates it into a layered visual language where meaning is suggested through imagery, atmosphere, and symbolism. It is at once an archive and a reinterpretation — each queen sits between documentation and imagination, a shifting image shaped by symbols, suggestion, and a subtle sense of myth.
The craft | Each queen is built as a digital collage combining photography, original illustration, and AI-generated imagery, fused into a single portrait that reads as historical identity reinterpreted, never literal reconstruction. Each queen's name is written in her own historical script — Egyptian hieroglyphs for Nefertiti, Tifinagh for Dihya, alongside Arabic, Georgian, and Greek — so that each ruler is named in her own writing, not only in ours.
The process and tools | The project was designed, prototyped, and built in Figma Make, used both through its AI-driven generation and its code editor for precise refinement — Figma Make is the spine that turns the concept into a living, interactive site. Around it sits a wider creative pipeline: Photoshop and Illustrator for visual development and the gold-line maps; Midjourney for image generation; Gemini to compose the original score "The Last Prayer of the Sultan"; and Claude to develop and structure the narrative. The result is a genuine multi-tool, AI-and-manual workflow, with Figma Make at its center.
The experience | The site unfolds like a museum. A soft, slowly drifting haze with floating, parallax collage elements gives way to a gallery of circular portraits; each queen's page reveals her in colour and invites the visitor to read symbolic hotspots placed directly on the artwork. The Geography of Silence gathers all six rulers onto a single map — where they ruled, and where memory let them fade. The Language of Emblems is the project's lexicon, collecting the recurring symbols — the hawk, the fox, the colour red — and reading them in their universal meaning: a key to the clues marked on each portrait. The journey closes with The Unwritten, where the names of other forgotten queens — Sheba, Amanirenas, Nzinga, Boudica, and more — surface and fade around a final illustration: an unfinished, ever-expanding tribute to the countless women still waiting to be remembered. The experience is fully responsive across desktop and mobile: on smaller screens it is rethought for touch rather than scaled down, with a collapsible menu, a pinch-to-zoom map, and enlarged tap targets.
If you've read all the way to here — thank you for your interest! 😊
I really loved this! Both the project and the idea behind it are really perfect. This is a wonderful initiative to ensure that women who have left their mark on history are not forgotten.
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