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Most check-ins ask how people feel. STARTFIELD asks what the room has capacity for.
Two minutes before a workshop or team session, a facilitator often has to decide whether to begin as planned, slow down, add context, or reduce the scope.
STARTFIELD turns three anonymous, temporary responses into a tactile collective field:
Ready to dive in
Need a slower start
Need context first
No names. No personal profiles. No historical tracking. No automated recommendation.
The field makes the group’s current capacity visible, while the final decision remains human.
Built as Day 12 of my 30 Days of Real Business Problems challenge, using Figma Make, original 3D token assets, and Animos for the presentation film.
The room resolves before the session begins.
Live prototype:
https://shrub-gong-08594418.figma.site
How should a facilitator read the room without turning a check-in into surveillance?
One of the best designs have seen so far today..... Keep up the great job
Thank you so much, really appreciate that. I wanted the visual system to feel calm and tactile without turning the check-in into another dashboard.
No names and no historical tracking is what makes this actually usable instead of another mood tracker nobody trusts. My guess on your own question: as long as the field only shows aggregate state and resets every session, it stays a tool instead of a record. Did anyone in testing push back on that assumption anyway?
That’s exactly the boundary I was trying to protect: the field should help with one session, then disappear rather than becoming a record about the team.
I haven’t run broad live testing yet, so I can’t claim that assumption has been fully validated. The current version is a...
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