Managing Overwhelm: The Power of Pausing and Self-Care

Managing Overwhelm: The Power of Pausing and Self-CareManaging Overwhelm: The Power of Pausing and Self-Care

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Ekaterina Popenova

• May 25

A tiny reminder: when everything feels overwhelming, pause, breathe, and take care of yourself. Sometimes rest is the most intelligent response.

Alhasan Aldasooqi

• 21h

Here is my submission for the #makeathon FocusDock is a calming focus timer designed for work, study, reading, and deep focus sessions. https://detach-lime-09329627.figma.site/

The idea started from a simple problem: most focus timers are functional, but they don’t feel personal or emotionally engaging. I wanted to create a timer that feels more like a small ritual, choosing your environment, placing your clock, setting the mood, and starting a focused session with intention.

With FocusDock, users can:

Choose a focus duration

Pick from different illustrated desk, shelf, and table backgrounds

Select a clock style

Place the clock naturally inside the scene

Start a clean, distraction-free focus session

Use ambient sounds or music to support concentration

The design direction is soft, calm, and minimal, using 2D illustrated backgrounds with clear surfaces where the clock can sit naturally. The goal is to make the clock feel like an object inside the workspace, not just a floating timer UI.

I’m using Figma’s suite of tools to explore the visual system, generate the interface direction, and build the interactive prototype with Figma Make. A big part of the challenge is making the experience feel polished: smooth transitions, thoughtful placement, responsive layouts, and a focus flow that feels simple but meaningful.

For me, this project is about turning time management into a calmer, more intentional experience. social post: https://x.com/sir_hsn/status/2063623301201858694?s=20

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harshad p

• 7h

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Karim B.

• 1d

Study Sprint 🚀 From Academic Panic to One Small Win in 15 Minutes

Live app: https://studysprint.figma.site

Figma Community file: https://www.figma.com/community/file/1645111743828638879

Figma Make file: https://www.figma.com/make/ntWo9FQTmFpYAusGm1TqNV/Study-Sprint-mobile-prototype?t=kPcxUznQIC5FwbHN-1

Social X post: https://x.com/KarimB3y/status/2063334357062824207?s=20 I built Study Sprint for the Config Makeathon to help students with one of the hardest parts of studying: starting.

When a student feels overwhelmed, even a simple quiz, essay, or homework task can feel too big to begin. Most productivity tools assume the user already has clarity and motivation. Study Sprint is designed for the moment before that.

The app turns academic stress into one calm, realistic 15-minute sprint.

A student enters what is stressing them out, chooses how overwhelmed they feel, and Study Sprint breaks the task into smaller steps. It creates a focused plan, starts a timer, and guides the student through one step at a time.

The experience includes an overwhelm meter, a panic-to-plan breakdown flow, personalized sprint plans, fallback states for unclear inputs, a built-in timer, optional soft focus music, and a Tiny Win completion card.

The goal is not to help students do everything.

The goal is to help them begin.

I built the prototype with Figma Make and refined it into a mobile-first web app with a focus on clarity, emotional support, edge cases, and small moments of progress.

Study Sprint is not a full productivity system.

It is a starting tool for the moment when a student feels stuck.

One stressful task.

One focused sprint.

One small win.

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Christal Davis

• 13h

An article that I wrote for Medium that’s been read 1.4k times so far.

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