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I am building a silly little app for #ConfigMakeathon called My Little Desk. It is a cozy desktop web app for book lovers. It combines a book tracker, pomodoro timer, and ambient music player on a single hand-drawn illustrated desk, designed to live on your monitor while you read on you desk~
The core idea: most book apps are designed to perform your reading life to an audience. My Little Desk is designed to be your reading companion
Features:
Book tracking: search, current read, last reads shelf, TBR pile with drag and drop, progress tracking, and timestamped thoughts
Pomodoro timer with custom illustrated asset, Digital Numbers typeface, color picker, and Web Audio API sound effects
Ambient music player with 12 curated playlists via YouTube Iframe API, CD disc and its jewel case mockup generated with Figma Weave
Beverage picker with 9 drink options, assets created in Figma Draw
Screenshot and shareable to share with your friends and fellow lovers
Tech stack:
Built in Figma Make (React/TSX)
Assets: Figma Draw (beverages, background), Figma Weave (CD artwork)
Google Books API (book search and metadata)
YouTube Iframe API (ambient music)
Web Audio API (timer sound effects)
Supabase (shareable URLs)
html2canvas (screenshot)
Workflow: designed the desk illustration by hand, vectorized in Figma, then built iteratively in Figma Make using short focused prompts. Manual code edits for fine-tuning. Build documented publicly on X throughout.
Try it out and share your desk!
Live Protoype:
https://mylittledesk.figma.site/
Community File: https://www.figma.com/community/file/1649002330806514076
X thread (daily progress): https://x.com/hanarikayasa/status/2065461442476978555
Here's my little desk, how about you? 😉
https://mylittledesk.figma.site?desk=be262fa2-bd5a-4635-814e-23a41315fb0e
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SPOT THE BOT, a gallery game about telling human creativity from a machine's
The problem. AI can now create almost anything, and for designers that's not abstract. The fear is that taste, judgment, the human "tell" in a piece of work no longer counts for anything. So instead of arguing about it, we made a game out of it.
The idea. Everyone gets the same prompt ("give beige a personality," "what keeps you up at 3am"), the same fixed kit of pieces, and 30 seconds. So does an AI. Every tile lands on a gallery wall, and players vote: which one is the bot? Then comes the reveal: who fooled you, and who you fooled. The constraint is the whole point. When everyone has identical pieces, the only thing separating the tiles is taste, wit, and choice, the human stuff. Right now the bot fools 72% of players, and every round feeds that number: a live, accumulating measure of where human judgment still holds the line.
The build & workflow. Designed and built end to end in the Figma ecosystem: the editor, the real-time multiplayer rounds (MAKE, VOTE, REVEAL), and the MUSEUM of every player-made tile. The asset kits (risograph, torn paper, duct tape, liquid metal, and more) were generated with Weavy.ai.
It's recursive by design: a game about spotting machine-made art, built with the machine's own creative tools. The medium is the argument.
Try it Live: Spot The Bot
Figma Community file: Community File
No sign-up. 30 seconds. Learn to see the human.
Good work!
Hello everyone! I built RajCycle for the #ConfigMakeathon! ♻️📱
The Idea: An eco-friendly app that transforms household waste into creative upcycling projects.
The Problem: Fragmented recycling information and a lack of clear execution paths in local communities.
The Workflow: Designed and brought to life natively using @figma Make to ensure a fluid, responsive, component-driven prototype.
🌪️Live Site - https://rajcycleapp.figma.site/
🎨Figma Community - https://www.figma.com/community/file/1646129972349570812/rajcycleapp
Check out the 40-seconds walkthrough below! 👇
Really nice concept. Sustainability solutions are often most effective when they're simple and actionable, and this feels like a great example of that. Well done!
I'd probably go with Option 5 because it highlights the strongest part of the project—the transition from awareness to action. 🌱♻️
I built an anonymous corner for the internet. It's called the Fruit Market. 🍊🍓
Every visitor leaves behind a unique fruit that represents them.
You choose a fruit, give it a label, add a few pieces of identity, and answer a prompt about something you're carrying, longing for, or wishing someone understood.
Then you place it on the shelf.
The result is a market full of anonymous human artifacts:
A mango who is missing home.
A peach who is terrified of graduating.
A dragon fruit who is searching for purpose.
The idea came from a question:
How deeply can we understand each other when names are removed?
Built with Figma and Figma Make on my humble phone and tablet. My goal was to create a whimsical, imperfect, yet vulnerable space that feels somewhere between a community bulletin board, a missed-connections page, and a message in a bottle.
Please, if you’re willing, leave a piece of yourself at the Fruit Market. <3
Website: thefruitmarket.figma.site
LinkedIn Post (feel free to connect!): https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7471214902842470401/
Figma Community Link (a copy of the website w/o the backend): https://www.figma.com/community/file/1647270469719499321
Made for the Contra x Figma Makeathon.
Wonderful and worth th build
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