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ORA is a cinematic prototype for a calm environmental intelligence system that helps compose the invisible atmosphere of daily life through light warmth, acoustic layering, olfactory flow, tactile comfort, routine orchestration, and emotional sanctuary logic.
Rather than behaving like a traditional voice assistant, ORA was designed as a subtle ambient presence that shapes the emotional tone of a space through environmental composition and sensory transitions.
Brand concept:
ORA- Your Home, Composed.
I used Google Stitch as a generative prototyping environment to explore the concept of “environmental intelligence” through cinematic interface design. Using conversational prompts and iterative visual generation, I developed atmospheric interface states, sensory transitions, sanctuary environments, and luxury ambient interactions for ORA.
Stitch allowed me to rapidly experiment with tone, lighting, composition, emotional presence, and interface flow while evolving the project from a traditional smart-home concept into a more emotionally aware and visually cinematic experience. I also used Stitch’s prototype and preview tools to organize generated scenes into interactive atmospheric flows.
Google Stitch made it possible to explore interface design in a much more conversational and cinematic way than traditional prototyping tools. The ability to generate and iterate through atmosphere, visual tone, interface language, and conceptual flows helped accelerate creative exploration significantly.
One of the most interesting aspects of the platform was how quickly abstract emotional ideas could evolve into visible interface states and prototype directions. Stitch felt especially strong for early-stage concept development, mood exploration, and generative UX experimentation.
At times, navigating exports, prototype connections, and asset management became challenging during rapid iteration, but the overall experience encouraged experimentation and helped transform an abstract concept into a tangible interactive prototype much faster than a traditional workflow.
So effortless yet so powerful at the same time.
Really interesting concept. I like how ORA focuses on shaping the mood of a space rather than acting like another assistant waiting for commands. Feels much more human and ambient.
Here's what I built:
https://on.contra.com/pnfJBQ
Would love your thoughts.
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Today I created a landing page for a productivity tool called Awake ai with just Google stitch and some inspiration from pinterest and behance.
It was a great experience seeing this come together.
Nice work. Stitch + inspiration boards seems to be a pretty good combo for exploring ideas quickly. Curious how much you changed from the initial Stitch output.
I experimented with a different direction here:
https://on.contra.com/pnfJBQ
Would love your feedback if you get a chance.
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SimpleRent - Contra Submission Post
Google Stitch Challenge Entry
PROJECT LINK
PROJECT TITLE
SimpleRent - Student Rental Platform for Sri Lanka
Every year, university students in Sri Lanka leave their hometowns to study in Colombo. They arrive with no local knowledge and no housing plan. No platform was built specifically for them.
SimpleRent is a student-first rental interface that solves two linked problems in one product: find a safe rental near your campus or find a compatible roommate to share the cost.
Google Maps-centered property search, NIC verification flow, roommate board, landlord dashboard, multi-step onboarding, messaging interface, and more - entirely designed and iterated inside Google Stitch.
HOW I USED STITCH
Before generating a single screen, I designed my own logo - a map pin housing a rooftop icon - and imported it into Stitch to generate a design.md brand file. Stitch scanned the logo and produced a complete design system: color palette, typography, card radius, shadow depth, and spacing. Every screen inherited that system automatically from the start.
Each of the 18 screens was then streamed live to the canvas - letting me review and plan refinements on one screen while the next was still being generated.
Once screens were on the canvas, I used Stitch's in-place AI edit feature to refine specific elements without regenerating anything. I clicked directly on a footer, typed a prompt, and only the footer changed. Same for card layouts, button colors, and badge styling - precise, targeted iteration on exactly the element I chose.
For motion, I used Stitch's native HTML canvas to build the NIC verification animation: the ID card shakes first as a visual cue, then flips smoothly on double-click. Property cards lift and shadow on hover. Because Stitch renders native HTML by default, every animation played in real time directly on the canvas as I built it.
For the code pipeline, I used Stitch's MCP connection to import Antigravity. Antigravity handled the code-side refinements - the logic and structure that go beyond what a visual canvas touches. Stitch for design. Antigravity for code. A full design-to-code pipeline, linked through MCP.
FEEDBACK ON STITCH
The real-time streaming canvas changed how I design. You stop waiting for a result and start collaborating with it - refining the previous screen while the next one is still being generated. That shift alone made the process feel genuinely different from any other tool I have used.
The in-place edit feature removed the biggest frustration of AI design tools: the fear of regenerating something good just to fix something small. Clicking directly on an element and prompting only that element to change is the kind of control that makes iteration feel safe.
The MCP integration with Antigravity was the unexpected part. It bridges the gap between a design prototype and a real codebase in a way I did not expect from a design tool.
Stitch did not just speed up how I work. It improved the ideas I had while I was working.
This is the gold standard right here! Absolutely spectacular.
Project Title: Neighborhood Rental Finder.
I designed the Neighborhood Rental Finder to solve the common stress of relocating to a new city without local guidance. My goal was to build an interface that feels "alive" by creating a seamless, interactive bridge between property owners and prospective tenants.
User Dashboard: A centralized hub where users can manage their bookings, saved listings, and active searches in real time, keeping the user journey organized and responsive.
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