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What if joy had a place?
I’ve always loved the feeling of stumbling into someone’s good news and letting it warm me for a second.
So for the Config Makeathon, I built Joy Garden with Figma Make.
Joy Garden is a collaborative digital garden where people plant flowers for the small things that make them happy.
Try it here:
warmth-agate-62816876.figma.site
Each flower is not just a post. It is a place: a little patch of simple happiness someone chose to share.
Morning pancake with my sister
A tiny walk before sunrise
My dad laughing at old songs
Finding a new song on repeat
As people visit, water, and send warmth to one another, the garden becomes a living map of shared happiness.
Joy Garden is a place for those small moments to take root.
Because when joy is shared, it does not get smaller.
It grows 🌱
The idea that each flower is a place rather than a post is a really meaningful design decision. It shifts the user's intention from broadcasting to planting, which completely changes how people interact with it.
Thank you, that means a lot! That was exactly the feeling I was hoping for, more like leaving little places people could visit and take care of.
It's live on Figma Community! 🥳
https://www.figma.com/community/file/1648247711149960154/joy-garden
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Proud to share my submission for the #configMakeathon 🦋
Design has one job — make people feel something before they think something.
For the #ConfigMakeathon, I built a complete digital campaign experience for Butterfly Conservation's "Britain's Favourite Butterfly" — taking a public vote and transforming it into something people actually want to be part of.
The challenge wasn't technical. It was human. How do you make someone genuinely care about a species they've never noticed? How do you turn conservation data into something personal? How do you design an experience that moves people from passive viewers to active participants?
The answer was architecture — three distinct experiences working as one:
🗳️ Results Explorer — A fully filterable species discovery system built around personality vibes, wing colours, and rarity. Not a leaderboard. A world worth exploring.
🧬 Personality Quiz — A matching experience that gives every user a butterfly identity rooted in real behavioural traits. Flashy. Feisty. Adventurous. Rare. When someone sees themselves in a species, the relationship changes entirely.
🌿 Conservation Narrative — A story-first approach to ecological data that earns its urgency rather than demanding it. The stakes land harder when you already have a favourite.
This is the kind of work I find most meaningful — where design isn't decoration, it's the strategy itself.
🔗 Prototype:Prototype
Built with Figma · Figma Make · MCP
#ConfigMakeathon #Figma #UXDesign #ProductDesign #DesignForGood #ButterflyConservation @Figma @Contra @Contra HQ
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👋 Hi everyone!
My name is Anastasiia, though most people know me as Rada.
I’m a Product Designer from Ukraine who enjoys turning complex problems into simple, meaningful experiences.
While design is my profession, it’s not the only thing that shapes the way I think. I also teach DJing, and both worlds have taught me the same lesson: great experiences are never accidental. They are carefully designed.
I’m fascinated by user behavior, product strategy, research, and the decisions that turn ideas into products people genuinely want to use.
I joined this challenge to share my thoughts, learn from others, and become more consistent in creating content.
Here you'll find insights about UX, product thinking, research, design processes, lessons learned, and sometimes a few stories from the music world as well.
Looking forward to connecting with you all 🚀
Welcome! ✨ I love the connection between product design and DJing—both are really about understanding people, reading the room, and creating experiences that feel effortless. 🚀
I present Doodle Fonts, my entry for Config Makeathon.
Making a custom typeface can be very complex and time consuming. Nearly every designer who wants a weird little display font for one project ends up licensing something generic, begging a type designer for a favor, learning a new complex pipeline or quietly giving up. Custom type is gatekept — not by talent, but by tooling. The most personal element of a brand is the one most people aren't allowed to touch.
Doodle Fonts fixes that. It's a font foundry that fits inside a canvas. You draw each glyph — freehand pencil, shapes, a dot grid, whatever feels right — across a full 96-character set covering upper, lower, numbers and punctuation. The whole alphabet renders live as you go, every font is saved to a library with an "X / 96 drawn" progress count, and when you're done you export a real, working, installable OTF font file.
It's built with Figma Make so it runs where designers already live, with Supabase handling auth and storage so your fonts follow you across sessions.
Display and brand type doesn't need PhD-level kerning — it needs personality. Doodle Fonts collapses "learn pro software + lose a weekend" into "doodle for twenty minutes," turning type design from a specialist skill into something anyone on a team can do.
Links to Doodle Fonts:
Everyone keeps telling designers to "just make a custom font." Now they actually can.
Can't wait to see how many fonts get created!
Wow I love this! I've always wanted to moonlight as a type designer...@Carlos Fernandez what's your fav typeface?
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