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Happy new week everyone.
A new week is always a chance to relearn, unlearn, and refresh.
Last week was particularly eventful for me.
As a Product Designer, I'm increasingly curious about the intersection of design, AI, and rapid prototyping—how ideas can move from concept to shipped experiences faster than ever before.
To explore that, I built something personal.
I designed and shipped a birthday tribute experience: a space where people who know me can share memories, kind words, and stories about how we met.
But I wanted it to go beyond a static website.
So I integrated an AI chatbot that can answer questions about me, alongside a photo timeline documenting moments from 2015–2026.
What I built:
→ A real-time tribute wall for live messages
→ An AI-powered chatbot using Claude API
→ A visual timeline spanning over a decade
→ An admin dashboard for managing content and media
→ A full-stack experience shipped rapidly through AI-assisted development
What this project reinforced for me:
→ Product design is no longer just about interfaces; it's about orchestrating experiences.
→ AI is changing how we build. The ability to prompt, iterate, and execute is becoming a core skill.
→ The gap between idea and implementation is shrinking rapidly, empowering designers to become builders.
Projects like this remind me why I enjoy design: turning abstract ideas into experiences that people can interact with, remember, and feel connected to.
Excited to keep exploring the future of AI-enabled product experiences.
#ProductDesign #UXDesign #AI #DesignE
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Very proud to share my submission for Config Makeathon
Really think a lot of the design to my app to make it eye catching and look interesting.
The progress of the app went very smoothly with good planning.
- Brainstorming
- Interview
- Friends/Other user feedbacks
- Negative Opinions for improvements
- Figma Make and Figma Weave
- Ai
- Design Sketching
Now i made an app for All in One app to improve your life.
In the video you will see the WORKFLOW and APP-Walkthrough.
Site link: https://sled-series-18065698.figma.site/
Figma Community: https://www.figma.com/community/file/1649636892933916569/bearify
Built with Figma.
#ConfigMakeathon #Figma #ProductDesign #Design #Bearify @Figma @Contra @Contra HQ
Putting together that much feedback and planning really shows in the final design. It is clear you took the time to gather input from different people and actually applied it instead of just going with your first idea.
The workflow looks smooth and the app seems well thought out. Definitely respect the effort you put into this
🥟 Dump your wins, grow your proof!
Growing up as an Asian woman, I was taught that humility is a virtue.
At every performance review, I couldn't remember my wins. Even when I did, I couldn't say them out loud.
And it's not just me. It's millions of people, especially women, especially in cultures that teach you not to put yourself forward.
So my sister and I built Dumpling 🥟
With us, your wins get remembered, refined, and ready when it counts!
⚒️ How we built it:
- Figma Weave: my sister's illustration studio — one consistent hand-drawn cat family, 20 characters, and UI components
- Figma Make: product logic + QA partner — I used it to test edge cases, catch usability gaps, and turn raw notes into business language. We found and fixed 10 issues this way earlier.
For everyone who taught their work should speak for itself, now it actually does!
Let me know which cat you got 🐈⬛
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Kathputli - where stories come alive!
• Pick a story type, age, and language
• AI generates a brand-new story in real time, so every adventure is unique
• It understands who’s on stage and instantly adapts when new characters join
• Children use simple hand gestures to interact with the puppets and influence what happens next
• Every puppet has its own voice, personality, expressions, and emotions
• Stories end with a gentle moral, making them engaging, interactive, and meaningful
🟩 The Problem
We live in a digital era where children have access to more stories than ever before. But most digital storytelling is still passive, children tap a screen, sit back, and consume the same pre-written experience as everyone else.There’s little room for imagination, interaction, or ownership.
The story doesn’t know who they are, what language they speak, what they’re curious about, or what choices they want to make. And yet, every child imagines differently. We felt storytelling should be just as personal.
🟩 Our Solution
Inspired by Rajasthan’s traditional Kathputli puppet theatre, we built Kathputli, an AI-powered storytelling experience where children don’t just watch a story unfold, they help create it. Instead of handing a child another video, we hand them the strings.
🟩 Built With
• Figma: designed the complete experience and storytelling flow
• Figma Make: rapidly prototyped the interactive product
• Figma Weave: created the puppet characters, expressions, and animations
• Google Gemini APIs: generated adaptive stories in real time
• MediaPipe: powered webcam-based gesture interaction
• ElevenLabs APIs: gave every puppet a unique and expressive voice
• Supabase: handled the backend and data layer
🟩 What We’ll Remember Most
This isn't a polished final product, it's the outcome of a few intense days of experimenting, rebuilding, refining prompts, and learning entirely new tools as we went.
Figma Make alone took us 170+ iterations to get the feel right. And with limited Weave credits, we often had just one shot to get a screen or a puppet right, which made every prompt count.
🟩 Where we'd take it next
• More characters, fuller emotions, and tighter lip-sync
• More languages and voices
• Story themes that grow from simple to complex with the child's age
• More interactive challenges, smoother animation, real-time object rendering
🟩 We didn’t just build with AI.
We learned how to design with it, collaborate with it, and tell better stories because of it.
And if there’s one thing we hope people take away from Kathputli, it’s this: In a world built for endless consumption, maybe the most meaningful stories are the ones children get to shape themselves.
Kathputli, where stories come alive.
🔗 Live Demo: https://kathputli.figma.site/
🧩 Figma Community File: https://www.figma.com/community/file/1649568219068252685
▶️ Social media post URL: https://x.com/shivam619tiwari/status/2067745369883369502
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