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Kids don’t defeat fear by reading advice.
They understand it better when they can see it, shape it, shrink it, rename it, and laugh at it.
That’s the idea behind Monster Movie Studio — a cinematic interactive cartoon experience where children turn big fears into funny little animated monsters.
Instead of building another dashboard or basic kids app, I wanted this to feel like a playable cartoon episode.
A child can:
→ create a clay-like 3D monster
→ choose what made the monster feel big
→ drag magical tools onto it
→ direct a tiny cartoon scene
→ shrink the scary shadow
→ turn a roar into music
→ make the monster dance
→ transform it into a tiny helper
→ print a movie poster
→ share a gentle parent note
The whole experience is designed around one principle:
Every action should speak.
Not just buttons.
Not static cards.
Not a form with cute colors.
A tap should change the scene.
A drag should transform the monster.
A completed action should feel cinematic.
A child should feel like they are directing a tiny animated movie.
Built with Figma Make for the Config Makeathon.
Monster Movie Studio — turn big fears into funny little cartoons.
Love how visual this feels. Not a normal app, more like an interactive animated experience.
The best brand systems I've built are boring and I've made peace with it.
Early on I wanted every project to be exciting with a new idea on every surface. It felt like the work. Then I watched those brands fall apart the moment I handed them off. The magic didn't transfer. It lived in my head.
The boring ones held with five rules:
A type system
A way of speaking
Decided once, written down, nobody allowed to freelance on it a junior designer could open the file on a Friday and ship something on-brand without calling me.
An exciting brand needs a genius in every meeting while a boring one needs a rule everyone keeps.
One of those keeps working while you're on a plane and the other one was always just you.
Most kids’ apps still feel like forms with cute colors.
Pick an option.
Tap next.
See a card.
Done.
I wanted WonderNest to feel different.
WonderNest is a magical interactive feeling playground where children don’t just answer questions — they build, touch, drag, unlock, collect, and watch the world react.
The idea is simple:
Children often feel things before they can explain them.
So instead of asking them to describe every emotion, WonderNest lets them create a tiny magical world around it.
They can:
→ drag weather into the sky
→ place a buddy inside the world
→ draw a feeling seed
→ grow that seed into a story
→ tap clouds to soften rain
→ drag an umbrella over Milo
→ light lanterns with kind words
→ cool a volcano with slow breaths
→ collect story badges
→ save each story to a magical shelf
The goal was to make emotional expression feel less like answering a form and more like playing inside a living cartoon world.
Every action creates a visible reaction.
A tap changes the weather.
A drag grows the world.
A completed game unlocks a badge.
A finished story becomes a collectible book.
Built for the Config Makeathon using Figma Make.
Still improving the motion, interactions, and visual polish — but this direction feels much closer to the kind of experience kids would actually want to explore.
WonderNest: a tiny story world for big feelings.
Love the visual direction here. The attention to detail really stands out.
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