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Here's my submission for #ConfigMakeathon
'Budding' teaches kids storytelling. They author fun little storybooks, thanks to guidance specific to their unique stories.
Testing has been so fun! ☺️ Budding draws their quirky stories into pictures that kids can't wait to see. It even narrates their books out loud in goofy voices 🙃
Besides fun, I've noticed kids articulate so much better with Budding. They polish thoughts, grapple with figments, and even work through emotions to bring a better story to life. More than other activities, I see kids ponder and push for finer ideas. I'm delighted to see this develop their creative muscle so uniquely 🫶
Check it out at: budding.figma.site
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Novel use: a unique processes needed for this project was the bulk generation of helpful yet consistent helper images. Each storytelling topic needed coherent ideas and guidance for the little authors. With almost 50 topics, this can quickly become very messy. Thanks to Figma Weave’s 'text iterators', I was able to do this right, and super clean! - I'll post a video for that here as well.
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Here's a demo book I made with Budding! 🎩
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A unique process I needed for this project was the bulk generation of helpful yet consistent helper images. Each storytelling topic needed its own coherent guidance and ideas in an image for the little authors. With almost 50 topics, this can quickly become very messy. Thanks to...
Really cool project! The idea of turning kid's thoughts into interactive stories with visuals + narration is genuinely impactful. Love the attention to consistency and the creative workflow behind it.
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For the #ConfigMakeathon, I built Rollroom 🎲
A desktop-only backgammon web app where you can create a room, share one link, play live 1v1, chat in real time, use voice commands, or play against a bot.
I built it with Figma Make, using Figma’s AI workflow to move from interface design to a working interactive prototype.
The idea: make a classic board game instantly playable online, without accounts, setup, or friction.
Live project:
https://poise-nest-20913441.figma.site
Good work!
You know that feeling when it's 3am and you have so much going on in your head but nowhere to put it? No one to tell, no diary you trust, just… everything sitting heavy inside you.
That's exactly why I built Vent It.
It's a safe little space where you write everything you've been holding in and watch it disappear into the fog. No storage. No receipts. Just you, your words, and that lighter feeling after.
The background shifts with real time, so if you're venting at 3am, it feels like 3am. It matches your moment.
And you're never fully alone. There's a tiny cat companion that somehow always knows what to say when you're going through it.
I built this because I couldn't find a place like this when I needed one. So I made it.
Try it and tell me if you felt it too 🌫️
Love this idea. Creating a space for reflection and emotional release feels both thoughtful and meaningful. Good luck!
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!
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