Brutalist architects exposed raw concrete because hiding it cost more. What's our excuse? We just like it:) A year ago, @Ansh Jamdagni and I built Loopin as a Framer template for a cassette brand that exists only as a thought experiment. We thought of making a nostalgic yet futuristic product website and neobrutalist design was our go for this dreamy product. We posted it on Contra expecting nothing in particular. A few months later, Other Health Ventures, a VC firm backing health and performance startups, got in touch. They were tired of looking like every other fund, had seen Loopin and wanted their site built with the same instincts less navy, more hard borders and Archivo Black. They've become one of our favourite clients since. A product designer later asked for her portfolio in the same language. No brief beyond "that, but for me." What we didn't clock until the third one: this style takes more decisions than minimal design, not fewer. Minimalism hides things. This doesn't. Every border, every oversized headline, every quiet corner is a choice that has to land on its own. Tools, for the curious: — Framer for all three — GPT for Loopin's product shots (not real cassette players unfortunately, several people have asked) — Mostly restraint, applied unevenly on purpose:) What's a design choice you've made that looks effortless but took the most thinking?

Nice work. The colors and elements are used in a good way.

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