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Iterations — every design version remembers why it changed.
Here's something every designer quietly deals with. You make a design. People give feedback. You change it. You change it again. And again. By version 5, nobody remembers why version 2 got thrown out or what that one good comment on version 3 actually said. The reasons just… disappear.
AI design tools made this worse, not better. They save every version, sure — but you can only ever look at one at a time. Want to see how today's design compares to last week's? You restore the old one, and the current one vanishes off your screen. It's like only being allowed to look at one photo from your camera roll at a time, with the captions deleted.
Iterations fix that.
It lets you put two or three versions of a design side by side, not one after another, but right next to each other, at the same time. And next to each version you can see the stuff that normally gets lost: what changed, why it changed, and the decision that settled it. The reasoning travels with the design.
A few things it does:
🔹 Compare side by side — pick any 2–3 versions and see them together, so the differences are obvious at a glance.
🔹 Comments that stay put — feedback gets pinned to the exact spot on the design it's about, and it stays there on every version. Nothing gets lost between drafts.
🔹 Sync scroll — turn it on and all the versions scroll together, so you're always comparing the same part of each one. (Easiest to see on a smaller screen, where the designs are long enough to scroll.)
🔹 Describe a change, get a new version — type what you want ("make the welcome screen warmer"), and Iterations drafts the next version for you, logged, tracked, and ready to compare against the old one.
The whole thing was built in Figma Make, with the design system wired up through Figma's MCP via Claude Code so the real colors, spacing, and components stay true to the source and an AI agent doing the heavy lifting.
It started from one small, annoying observation: in design, we save the picture but lose the story. Iterations keep both.
🎥 Demo video attached
🔗 Live project: Iterations App
🔗 Figma community file: Iteration Design System
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One last small update to my submission for the Config Makeathon!
The idea: ask real people for recommendations in the city they know best. 🌍
Beyond the recommendations from others that land on your Canvas, you can now add your own ideas and build a custom board too.
And from all the messy ideas that have made it onto your canvas, both yours and the ones recommended by others, you can now plan day trips. 🗺️
Just hold Shift to select the items you want to do in one day, then figure out how long it takes to get from one spot to the next and which mode of transport gets you there. 🚃
The app runs on Supabase in the backend. Summer's just around the corner and it's time to discover new places, so give it a try. ☀️
Link to Incola: https://vary-mac-30681003.figma.site
Here's the link to my main post: https://on.contra.com/qk9nLk
this is the perfect addition to a project like this, nice work!
Super happy to share my entry for the Figma Makeathon 😊
Connected Earth.
Language separates us. Sound connects us.
https://www.connected.earth
Connected Earth started with a simple observation: despite being more connected than ever, many of us feel increasingly disconnected from each other, our surroundings, and the places we live.
Most platforms ask us to compete for attention. More followers. More likes. More visibility. More noise. I wanted to explore the opposite.
Connected Earth is a living archive of sounds contributed by people around the world. A quiet place where someone can capture a moment from their corner of the planet and share it with someone they’ve never met.
The sound of rain in Scotland.
A train arriving in Tokyo.
Waves breaking in Australia.
Bikes whizzing past in park in Amsterdam.
Children playing on a street somewhere you’ll probably never visit.
None of these moments need translating. They’re immediately human.
Every recording becomes part of a growing global collection that can be explored individually or experienced through Earth Radio, a continuously evolving stream shaped entirely by community contributions. The more people contribute, the richer and more diverse the experience becomes.
Alongside the archive, Connected Earth includes Ambient Radio for creating evolving soundscapes from community recordings where sounds are stretched, overlayed, reversed, and can have user effects applied. We also have Resonance Tables for discovering related sounds and places, and Resonance Chains that allow recordings to be connected (chained) together into journeys spanning countries, cultures, and time zones. Together they transform individual moments into something larger than a collection of uploads.
Rather than likes, Connected Earth uses Resonations. Small acknowledgements that a sound resonated with someone else. No user account, No follower counts. No popularity contests. No pressure to perform. Just people sharing moments.
For those looking for calm, Ambient Mode transforms community recordings into evolving soundscapes that can be used for focus, reflection, relaxation, or simply feeling connected to somewhere else in the world.
The result is less of a social network and more of a shared listening experience.
The project was designed and built using Figma’s evolving ecosystem, including Figma Agents (Conversation & Moods), Make, AI-assisted (ChatGPT > validation) workflows, and iterative prototyping. What began as a conversation with design tools quickly became an exploration of how technology might help us feel a little more connected to one another.
Connected Earth is fully desktop and mobile compatible, allowing people to contribute, discover, listen, and explore wherever they happen to be.
In a world increasingly driven by content, Connected Earth is an experiment in presence. A reminder that while we may speak different languages, we often experience the same rain, the same wind, the same birdsong, and the same quiet.
And perhaps that matters more than we think.
Love the idea, Lee! Being focused on what matters most, the small details of life. No pressure, no engagement, no likes... Just seeing the awesome world that we have from our chairs
Memory Bank is a private family app designed to capture the small moments that usually get lost.
We take thousands of photos every year, but the little things often disappear: a note before a test, a flower picked on the way home from school, a funny photo of the family cat, or a simple “good luck” message from a parent.
Memory Bank gives families a shared space where they can add photos, notes, and emojis throughout the day. These contributions form a collaborative daily memory that lives on the home screen as a widget.
At midnight, the day’s memory is automatically captured as a Polaroid and saved to a family archive. Over time, families build a collection of memories together, one day at a time.
For this project, I wanted to experiment with a different design workflow.
Instead of starting in Figma, I used Codex and the Build-iOS-App workflow to generate a working Swift prototype first. My goal was to validate the interaction and product flow before investing time in visual design.
Once the concept felt promising, I used Figma MCP to bring the app screens into Figma, where I explored different visual directions, refined the user experience, and iterated on the overall concept.
I then used Figma Make to prototype key interactions and validate the experience before bringing those improvements back into the app.
Finally, I created the launch trailer and supporting assets using Hyperframes, Codex, and Figma MCP, allowing me to iterate on both the visual design and the story as the concept evolved.
The result was a workflow that felt much more fluid than the traditional path of Idea → Design → Prototype → Build.
Instead, the project evolved through a continuous loop of Idea → Prototype → Figma → Prototype → Launch.
Memory Bank started as a Makeathon experiment, but quickly became something I genuinely want to build for my own family.
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