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For #ConfigMakeathon, I created Ripple Reflect ā a calming multiplayer reflection space designed for caregivers such as teachers, nurses, doctors, counsellors, home carers, and firefighters, who often carry a heavy emotional load but rarely have a place to pause and be heard.
Every visitor can anonymously share a thought, emotion, or small win. Each reflection becomes a ripple in a shared digital water space, blending with others to create a quiet sense of connection and collective calm. The water and ripple metaphor was intentionally chosen to show how even the smallest act of reflection can create a meaningful impact beyond ourselves.
I designed and built the entire experience in Figma Make, using Plan Mode and Claude Opus to move from concept to interactive prototype. My workflow focused on identifying a real-world problem, designing a calming visual language, iterating with AI-assisted prototyping, and refining interactions to create an experience that feels human rather than transactional.
My goal was to explore how design can create not just interfaces, but moments of connection, reflection, and emotional support.
If this resonates with you, Iād love for you to try it and share your thoughts. šš
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Great creation.
Thanks Shivil
Designing for caregivers is rare and this concept really lands. The multiplayer reflection angle is thoughtful because the people carrying the most weight often need community, not just a solo journaling app. "Every quiet feeling makes a ripple" is a genuinely good tagline.
Thank you so much Rafee
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Not a metaphor. A literal one.
Add a book. Set a timer. Watch your apartment slowly come alive as you read. Dust clears in real time. Rooms bloom from neglect to warmth. Stop reading and watch it all fade back.
The Problem
Most reading trackers are lists. Cold. Forgettable. They record what you have not done without making you feel anything about it. You open the app, see a number, close the app. Nothing changes inside you.
Shelf Life is built around a different belief. Your habits should live somewhere. They should breathe. They should have consequences you can see.
Your bedroom holds the book you read before sleep. Your kitchen holds the article you meant to finish over coffee. Your study holds the essay you keep putting off. Read consistently and each space blooms back to life through an organic dust clearing animation driven by your actual reading time. Neglect your reading and the dust returns. Your home becomes a mirror of your habits. Honest and quiet and impossible to ignore.
I deliberately chose not to let users upload or read books inside the app. The moment you can read inside a tracker it stops being a tracker and starts competing with the experience of actually holding a book. Shelf Life honours the ritual of reading without replacing it.
How It Was Built
I started with a design philosophy before I started with a prompt. Warmth. Craft. Human first. Every decision was made to make the user feel something not just complete a task.
The isometric apartment and all ten room images including the neglected and bloomed states for each of the five rooms were generated entirely using Figma Weave. I used Figma for rapid design ideation and layout exploration before moving into Figma Make.
In Figma Make I built the full app in React and TypeScript. The core technical challenge was the dust clearing animation. It uses an SVG mask system with organic circular spots growing via requestAnimationFrame running in parallel with the reading timer. Each spot has its own delay and duration so the reveal feels natural and alive rather than mechanical. The same spots reverse in mirror order when the room returns to neglected. The animation runs both ways. Forward when you read. Backward when you stop.
Room specific ambient music plays in each space. The bedroom has soft rain and piano. The kitchen has morning acoustic warmth. The living room has fireplace crackle. The study is near silence. Each room sounds like it feels.
Tools Used
Figma Weave for AI image generation across all ten room backgrounds
Figma for design ideation and layout
Figma Make for the full app built in React and TypeScript
The Moment That Matters
Start a reading timer. Watch your room slowly clean itself in real time. Organic dust spots grow across the image revealing the bloomed version beneath. It is not a progress bar. It is not a percentage. It is your home breathing back to life because you chose to read.
When the timer ends the room holds its bloomed state then gradually returns to neglect. The direction of the animation tells you everything about your relationship with reading that week.
Most people go quiet when they watch it happen for the first time.
Excellent presentation š
I built an anonymous corner for the internet. It's called the Fruit Market. šš
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 youāre 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
Hello everyone! I built RajCycle for the #ConfigMakeathon! ā»ļøš±
The Idea: An eco-friendly app that transforms household waste into creative upcycling projects.
The Problem: Fragmented recycling information and a lack of clear execution paths in local communities.
The Workflow: Designed and brought to life natively using @figma Make to ensure a fluid, responsive, component-driven prototype.
šŖļøLive Site - https://rajcycleapp.figma.site/
šØFigma Community - https://www.figma.com/community/file/1646129972349570812/rajcycleapp
Check out the 40-seconds walkthrough below! š
Really nice concept. Sustainability solutions are often most effective when they're simple and actionable, and this feels like a great example of that. Well done!
I'd probably go with Option 5 because it highlights the strongest part of the projectāthe transition from awareness to action. š±ā»ļø
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