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I’ve been working on a small experiment recently.
It started from a simple observation:
Most of the difficulty in work isn’t starting tasks.
It’s resuming them.
When you come back after some time, the context is often partially gone, and rebuilding it takes more effort than the work itself.
So I started exploring a way to reduce that friction.
Something that runs quietly in the background and helps reconstruct what was happening when you return.
Still early.
Still experimenting...
Task resumption cost is real and underrated. The context reconstruction piece is where most time actually goes. Curious what the background monitoring looks like in practice, whether it's capturing state passively or prompting you to log things.
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I built Chirp, a temporary shared room for small moments — 10-second sounds, photos, doodles, and stickers that disappear after 24 hours.
Most online spaces today feel public, permanent, and performative. I wanted to make the opposite: a private, playful, low-pressure room where people can leave tiny traces together without creating another profile, feed, or archive.
Anyone can create a room without logging in, share a unique link, and invite others to record short sounds, reply with audio, add photos, place stickers, or doodle on the canvas.
Chirp may look like a playful canvas, but it is not a productivity board or a persistent workspace. The 24-hour expiration is part of the design: because everything fades away, people can post more casually and treat the room like a shared moment, not a social feed.
I built Chirp with Figma Make to explore how Figma can be used to create an interactive, expressive, and temporary web experience.
Note: Chirp is an experimental prototype built for Config Makeathon. Rooms and uploaded content are temporary, so please don’t use it for sensitive information.
Live project:
https://chirp.figma.site/
This is a great example of creative problem-solving. The final experience feels very polished.
Out of Hibernation – Gamified Productivity App
Try it at: https://tart-veggie-09673279.figma.site
Hello everyone! This was my very first attempt at creating an app, and I had a lot of fun discovering new tools and experimenting with fresh ideas. Definitely not my last attempt 😁.
🔹 The Problem
Procrastination is one of the biggest obstacles to achieving daily goals. It drains motivation, breaks consistency, and leaves tasks unfinished.
🔹 The Solution
Out of Hibernation transforms this struggle into a playful journey. Designed specifically for smartphones, the app makes daily goals feel tangible and rewarding by tying them to the survival and evolution of your Companion.
🔹 Concept
Users awaken one of three Companions, each with distinct evolutionary paths (Body, Mind, Soul).
Daily goals can be created or chosen from presets, with a set duration.
Completing goals in real life generates Bloom, a resource used to strengthen and evolve the Companion.
At evolutionary thresholds, the Companion faces challenges: success unlocks the next stage, failure risks freezing into the Memorial section as a statue of procrastination.
🔹 Workflow
Initial structure designed in Figma Make with detailed prompts describing app logic and screen flow.
Visual assets iterated in Figma Weave using interconnected nodes to generate evolving versions of Companions, backgrounds, objects, enemies, bosses, and avatars.
Modular design ensures assets can be reused across different positions and contexts, with background‑removal nodes for flexibility.
🔹 Impact
Out of Hibernation turns everyday tasks into a growth system that rewards consistency and focus. By gamifying productivity, it provides users with a sense of progress and accountability, while showcasing the potential of AI‑assisted workflows in Figma for rapid iteration and creative asset generation.
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Genzeb AI — Dashboard Design
Designed a dashboard concept for an AI-powered productivity platform focused on workflow automation, performance tracking, and real-time insights.
The realtime metrics panel alongside the call management charts is a smart layout choice. Keeping live data and historical context in the same view without it feeling crowded is tricky to pull off in dashboard design.
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