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Between Us
Between Us is an emotionally immersive shared digital space designed to help people feel emotionally closer in a world where communication often feels fast, noisy, and emotionally disconnected.
Instead of building another traditional messaging or social platform, this project explores how atmosphere, cinematic storytelling, emotional presence, and immersive interaction design can create deeper and more meaningful digital connection between two people.
The experience introduces emotionally adaptive atmosphere systems:
Memory Mode
Presence Mode
Dream Mode
Healing Mode
Celebration Mode
Each mode transforms the emotional feeling of the experience through cinematic visuals, ambient environments, lighting systems, motion, music-inspired atmosphere, and emotionally driven UI design.
Users can share:
memories
emotional diaries
future letters
voice moments
ambient music
emotional presence
shared atmosphere
The goal was to explore how emotionally intelligent digital experiences could feel calmer, softer, and more human-centered.
Workflow
This project was built using an AI-native workflow across Figma’s ecosystem.
Figma Weave
Used for:
emotional worldbuilding
cinematic atmosphere generation
background image creation
visual storytelling assets
emotional mode exploration
Figma Make
Used for:
rapid mobile app prototyping
interface generation
atmosphere-driven UI systems
interaction exploration
visual iteration
Cursor + Figma MCP
After generating the initial experience in Figma Make, I exported the source code into Cursor and connected Figma MCP to continue refining and completing the product.
This workflow allowed design context, generated UI, and development to remain connected throughout the process.
Inside Cursor, I refined:
layouts
interactions
responsiveness
atmosphere transitions
visual polish
final experience details
Live Experience
Figma Community
Why I Built This
This project explores how AI-native creative tools can be used not only for productivity and speed, but also for emotional storytelling, cinematic UX, atmosphere-driven interaction, and more meaningful human-centered digital experiences.
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Congrats Mcnove
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Awesome and crazy.
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Mcnove did a great job. Congrats!
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He has super design sense ever saw! SUPER!!!
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Ethan's avatar
Perfect
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Really love the atmosphere and visual direction here. The workflow integration is super clean too
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This is such a creative use of Figma’s AI ecosystem. Really inspiring workflow and presentation 🔥
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Hey, I just wanted to say you did a really great job with the video editing. The cuts, timing, and overall flow were excellent. I really appreciate the effort you put into it — it looks very professional!
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This is absolutely cinematic — the atmosphere modes are a brilliant concept. Presence Mode especially feels so intentional. Amazing work!
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Liam's avatar
The emotional storytelling and visual polish are incredibly well done. Amazing work 👏
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Great Idea!!!
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This is stunning! Looks like you're still missing a social post shared to Instagram, X, or LinkedIn with #ConfigMakeathon and @figma. Check the guidelines and get those in before the deadline!
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so emotional atmosphere~
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This has got a very good vibe Mac - lots of signal. Well done. 👊
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Thank you!😊
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nice atmosphere
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Amazing concept and execution!
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I really love the focus on emotional connection and meaningful digital experiences 👍
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Wonderful
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