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For #ConfigMakeathon, I created Someone Left This For You 🪭
A tiny paper-crafted digital experience where strangers leave little worlds behind for one another.
The idea came from two things I love: creating thoughtful digital experiences and the paper craft and origami I spent hours making as a kid.
I'd fold cranes, boats and tiny creations for hours, amazed that something so simple could become something magical. I wanted to bring that same feeling into a digital experience.
So I imagined a place where people could quietly build tiny handcrafted paper worlds, hide anonymous notes of kindness inside them, and release them for someone else to discover.
Users can open a note, read a message left by a stranger, leave a heart or a thoughtful comment, download it, or create a tiny paper world of their own for the next person to find.
To bring the concept to life, I used Figma Weave to explore the art direction through moodboards, paper textures and handcrafted scenes until the visual language felt cohesive.
Rather than fully designing every screen upfront, I used Figma Design to rapidly ideate and prototype the experience, refining the user flow and interactions before moving into development.
I also loved using Figma MCP with Claude Code to iterate quickly on the implementation, interactions and overall experience, while Supabase powered the storage of paper worlds, notes and community data, and GitHub handled deployments.
Finally, I used Figma Make to bring everything together into a polished interactive experience that feels slow, tactile, and intentional.
I hope it reminds people that even the smallest act of kindness can travel further than we imagine. 💛
If you'd like to try it, I'd love for you to explore a few little worlds and maybe leave a kind note, a piece of encouragement, or a little advice for someone who might need it today.
You never know who might need to find it.
this is lovely!
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I joined the Config Makeathon.
Our challenge was to design and build something that makes a difference, to use Figma's new tools and test them out.
I built Trail Scope - a community-powered, mobile-first web app that lets outdoor enthusiasts in Puerto Rico check and report trail conditions in seconds — no group chat required. It took a week o design and develop this app using Figma + Figma Make.
Overview
Problem statement: Outdoor enthusiasts in Puerto Rico — trail builders, mountain bikers, hikers, and runners — have no centralized way to know the current conditions of our local trails. Unpredictable tropical weather forces community members to contact multiple social media groups to get a trail status update which may take hours or days. This uncertainty leads to plans being changed or canceled last minute, and in more serious cases, exposes users to hazardous or impassable trail conditions.
Opportunity: By creating a community-powered, mobile-first trail condition reporting app, Trail Scope can become the single source of truth for trail status in Puerto Rico — with the foundation to scale globally. Reducing friction in getting and sharing real-time trail information increases safety, improves the outdoor experience, and strengthens the local trail community.
Users & audience
Primary persona — the active outdoor enthusiast Mountain bikers, hikers, trail runners, and trail builders based in Puerto Rico. They are mobile-first, active on social media, and currently rely on WhatsApp groups or Facebook to get trail updates. Their biggest pain points are uncertainty before heading out and wasted trips due to poor conditions.
Secondary persona — the trail steward Trail builders and maintainers who want to alert the community about hazards, closures, or recent work done on a trail. They are proactive contributors who care about trail safety and community trust.
Link to live prototype: https://sans-party-16392973.figma.site
Link to Figma Make file: https://www.figma.com/make/lwCzP7lQkPJYDkuNtwtcJ5/Config-Makeathon?t=7WjJvLBOnb98rMZ4-1
Trail Scope is a genuinely useful idea. The problem you're solving is real, hikers getting stuck with outdated info from scattered WhatsApp groups is a safety issue, not just an inconvenience. The nature illustration style fits the outdoor context really well too.
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👉 Keep these in mind when working on your project for Config Makeathon. 7 days left to submit your prototype!
Thank you, very helpful tips
What if you could discover the world through a local's eyes? 🌍
Work in progress. 🤫
What do you think of the visuals?
This looks fun
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