⚠️ Is "Doom Scrolling" or "Brain Rot" affecting you or your loved ones? Do you recognize

⚠️ Is "Doom Scrolling" or "Brain Rot" affecting you or your loved ones? Do you recognize⚠️ Is "Doom Scrolling" or "Brain Rot" affecting you or your loved ones? Do you recognize

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Philippe Côté

• Mar 3

⚠️ Is "Doom Scrolling" or "Brain Rot" affecting you or your loved ones? Do you recognize the pattern? If so, read on. Aza Raskin, a technology engineer and designer at the interface company Humanized, invented infinite scrolling in 2006. Originally designed to create a smooth and uninterrupted browsing experience by eliminating the need to click to view new pages, Raskin later expressed regret about this invention, noting its role in creating an addictive, time-consuming form of "behavioral cocaine." ☀️ Today, we propose an update to this invention aimed at limiting the addiction mechanism. Please check out the "🥒 Pickle Scroll - Prototype" and tell me what you think! :) 🏃 The walkthrough is built-in into the experience itself. Enjoy! https://crust-music-60925552.figma.site

figmamakeathon Interaction Design antidoomscroll

Asif Younas

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• 2d

@Philippe Côté Neat approach to the problem from a visual paradigm perspective. Another idea could be showing a regular scrollbar and gradually expanding the scrollbar handle until it fills the entire track.

Unfortunately, it’s unlikely that major platforms would adopt something like this. It...

Muhammad F.

• Mar 3

Really clever concept! Great execution.

Here's mine: https://on.contra.com/8kjmfz

Would appreciate your thoughts!

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Philippe Côté

• Mar 5

Thanks! I’ll go check yours! :)

Paul N.

• Mar 3

neat approach to the problemas visual paradigm there's also showing a regular scroll bar and growing the literal scrollbar handle till it fills the track. Too bad we'd never see platforms willing do something like this. Would be a killer OS productivity feature but that's...

Philippe Côté

• Mar 5

Thanks for your comment, really appreciated! :) Indeed, it could work as an overlay of some sort!

Lee Black

• Feb 27

Imagine treating scroll like an instrument, not a wheel.

For #FigmaMakeathon I built ScrollFolio in #FigmaMake. A scroll focus portfolio where scrolling and mousing becomes navigation, pacing, and focus, with “sticky” moments that lock in and release cleanly. Also works with simple keys (← → ↑ ↓ and Spacebar) to open/close items.

I leaned into what Make is good at: fast iteration on interaction timing, responsiveness, and polish. The goal wasn’t a static layout, it was a working fast interaction that feels physical across devices in a single view. Published project on Desktop and Mobile (has it's own swipe integrations): https://scrollfolio.figma.site