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We've been told to "take better notes" our whole lives ā but no one fixed the tools. You write in one app, link in another, and lose the thought that connected them somewhere in between. The problem was never your memory. It was that your notes were dead the moment you saved them.
Your brain doesn't store memories in files ā it stores them in connections. Desnote works the same way. Every page you write becomes a node. Every link you make becomes a visible connection. A neural graph grows in real time ā showing you not just what you know, but how it all fits together.
This is what note-taking looks like when it's designed to think. Built with Figma Make for #FigmaMakeathon
Open it. Type your first note.
See what your knowledge looks like when it's alive.
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Presenting - Silver Line š„ļø
https://silverlinespace.figma.site
My Config Makeathon Submission!
A helpline for hearts that can't quite see the bright side today.
š„ļø The Problem
We all carry small struggles around with us. A rejection email, a plan that fell through, a rough day at work, a friend who didn't text back. None of them are the end of the world, but they pile up. And on the wrong day, even the little things feel heavy. Most of us weather them alone and in silence, scrolling past everyone else's highlight reel while quietly having a hard time.
There are apps for big crises and apps for vanity metrics, but very little for the everyday, low-grade cloud that just needs a kind word from a stranger.
āļø The Solution
Silver Line is a communal sky where strangers help strangers spot their silver lining.
Share your cloud. Sign in, step into the sky, and post the little problem weighing you down. Set how heavy it feels, then send it up.
Be someone's silver line. Open any cloud and leave a message of encouragement, a kind word, or a bit of perspective.
Loved someone's comment? Send a ray of sun to show you appreciate it.
Watch clouds turn happy. When you can finally see the bright side, tap "I see the silver lining" and watch your cloud become a happy cloud.
The goal is simple: make every cloud in the sky a happy one!
Because no one should face their problems alone.
Safety rails (community flagging + admin moderation) keep the sky a kind place.
š ļø The Process & Figma Tools Used
The whole thing was built predominantly in Figma, powered by Figma Make.
Planning: Mapped the idea and concept with an AI agent before touching design.
Figma MCP: Built the entire design system and variables directly in Figma, fast and clean.
Figma Design Agent: Spun up the major screens in minutes.
Figma Weave + Figma Draw: Generated the cloud assets and visuals; Draw was a joy for the finishing touches.
Figma Make: The heart of it. Prompted my vision and watched it come to life, iterating across versions. Used Figma Make's Select Edits for precise manual tweaks (images, text, padding) to save AI credits.
Supabase:Connected for persistence, so clouds, messages, and rays of sun are saved between visits.
A real end-to-end Figma workflow, from design system to a live, interactive product.
š Link - Try it out yourself!
š Live Working Prototype: https://silverlinespace.figma.site
*** Cannot provide figma community link as this project is connected to Supabase! ***
š¤ Built by
Arjun Haridas, Product Designer, Bangalore, India.
Originally designed and built during the Config Makeathon period.
Huge thanks to Figma for the makeathon and to Contra for hosting. And to everyone who's ever been the silver line to someone else's cloud you're the reason this exists. šš¤ļø
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Bloom Lab is a cozy virtual plant-breeding mini game where users can choose a seed, plant it, care for it, help it bloom, and create new hybrid plants by combining traits.
The idea started with a simple thought:
What if a plant-care game could feel calm, expressive, and a little magical?
In the game, each plant reacts through mood changes, care meters, facial expressions, and small interactions. Users can water the plant, give it sunlight, watch it grow, and eventually discover hybrid plants like Glowleaf, Honeybloom, and Dreamberry.
This project was also special for me because it was my first time using Figma Make, along with other AI-assisted tools/models during the process. It was exciting, but also challenging. I had to learn how to work with prompts, fix broken flows, manage component states, refine animations, and make sure the final experience still felt intentional as a design.
Some things I focused on:
Building a soft and cozy visual style
Creating reusable components and plant assets
Designing smooth micro-interactions
Making the care screen feel alive through plant expressions and idle animations
Creating branching outcomes based on seed and hybrid choices
This project taught me a lot about designing with AI tools not just generating screens, but guiding, correcting, and shaping the experience until it felt like my own.
It was a challenging but really fun learning experience, and Iām happy I pushed myself to participate.
Check it out here: https://pad-flyer-18166722.figma.site
Excellent presentation and storytelling throughout the experience. Nicely done!
Threadline ā an interactive visual journaling experience, with walkthrough video
project live demo link:
Link of figma project:
Figma X Contra challenge
Most journaling tools flatten memory into text boxes. Threadline turns memory into something you can see and touch. You enter a few real moments from your life, choose a thread color for each, and weave them into a canvas. The heavy ones show up as knots.
You can open a knot, sit with what it carried, and reframe it in your own words. Not to erase it.. just to hold it differently. When the thread softens, the memory stays. It just doesn't pull the same way. At the end you're left with a woven cloth made from your own story.
I built this for people who carry things they don't always know how to say out loud. Grief, change, loss, starting over.. those don't fit neatly into a journal entry. Sometimes it's tangled. Sometimes you don't know where to start. Threadline gives that a form: memories become threads, weight becomes tension, unresolved moments become knots, and reframed meaning becomes a gold stitch.
The flow: add your moments ā choose thread colors ā generate your Threadline ā open a knot ā reframe it ā keep or share the cloth.
It's quiet on purpose. No streaks, no metrics, no gamification. Just a place to put what you've been carrying.
And honestly, if you're carrying something right now: you don't have to carry it perfectly. That's the whole point of this thing.
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