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Building Partly for the @Figma Makeathon taught me a few things:
🔗 Try Partly: https://partly.figma.site/ ( 🚨Better Experience on Desktop)
Partly started as an experiment:
"What if online communities had a 🌊beach instead of a chat room?"
And then I Learned 5️⃣ important things:
1️⃣ People don't care how complex your tech is. They care how it makes them feel.
2️⃣ The fastest way to validate an idea is to put it in front of users.
3️⃣ Small interactions can create real friendships.
4️⃣ Figma Make helped me go from idea to working multiplayer experience much faster than I expected.
5️⃣ Sometimes the best part of a project isn't shipping it,it's watching strangers enjoy it.
A few days later:
🌊 45k+ visitors
🫂 Real friendships formed
🎉 People hanging out together inside a world I built
Built with: @Figma Make, Supabase ,YouTube API
🔗 Try Partly: https://partly.figma.site/
45k visitors from a weekend experiment is wild. Point 5 hit home too. There's something about seeing strangers actually use what you built that no amount of user testing quite replicates.
100%The moment strangers start using something you built is when it really feels real.
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The idea came from a simple problem: typing practice is useful, but it can feel repetitive and not very motivating. I wanted to explore how a clean typing-test interface could be combined with a playful game mechanic.
In KeyDash, players type random English words while a pixel-art runner tries to stay ahead of a human chaser. Every correct word increases the lead, while mistakes and slow typing make the chaser get closer.
Players can choose difficulty, time duration, character, and map before starting a run. During gameplay, KeyDash tracks WPM, accuracy, time, correct words, combo, and lead distance. At the end, players get a result screen with their final WPM as the main score, plus supporting stats and shareable results.
I used Figma Make to design and build the working prototype, iterating through the interface, gameplay logic, result screen, and visual style directly from prompts and refinements.
Try the live project here:
https://mind-cinch-79522553.figma.site/
View the Figma Community file here:
https://www.figma.com/community/file/1646235222942005244/keydash-arcade-typing-game-built-with-figma-make
KeyDash — Type fast. Stay ahead.
love it! We need more difficult levels! And starting at the first letterpress would be cool too.
Between Us
Between Us is an emotionally immersive shared digital space designed to help people feel emotionally closer in a world where communication often feels fast, noisy, and emotionally disconnected.
Instead of building another traditional messaging or social platform, this project explores how atmosphere, cinematic storytelling, emotional presence, and immersive interaction design can create deeper and more meaningful digital connection between two people.
The experience introduces emotionally adaptive atmosphere systems:
Memory Mode
Presence Mode
Dream Mode
Healing Mode
Celebration Mode
Each mode transforms the emotional feeling of the experience through cinematic visuals, ambient environments, lighting systems, motion, music-inspired atmosphere, and emotionally driven UI design.
Users can share:
memories
emotional diaries
future letters
voice moments
ambient music
emotional presence
shared atmosphere
The goal was to explore how emotionally intelligent digital experiences could feel calmer, softer, and more human-centered.
Workflow
This project was built using an AI-native workflow across Figma’s ecosystem.
Figma Weave
Used for:
emotional worldbuilding
cinematic atmosphere generation
background image creation
visual storytelling assets
emotional mode exploration
Figma Make
Used for:
rapid mobile app prototyping
interface generation
atmosphere-driven UI systems
interaction exploration
visual iteration
Cursor + Figma MCP
After generating the initial experience in Figma Make, I exported the source code into Cursor and connected Figma MCP to continue refining and completing the product.
This workflow allowed design context, generated UI, and development to remain connected throughout the process.
Inside Cursor, I refined:
layouts
interactions
responsiveness
atmosphere transitions
visual polish
final experience details
Live Experience
Figma Community
Why I Built This
This project explores how AI-native creative tools can be used not only for productivity and speed, but also for emotional storytelling, cinematic UX, atmosphere-driven interaction, and more meaningful human-centered digital experiences.
This is such a creative use of Figma’s AI ecosystem. Really inspiring workflow and presentation 🔥
My project that makes a big difference is OpenIdea. A platform where smart minds and inventors from everywhere can show the world their innovative work, OPEN SOURCE!
The platform is designed using Figma Make.
Live project link: https://draw-hello-57638755.figma.site/
Community file link: https://www.figma.com/community/file/1646103245889715657
I've also taken my time to share the OpenIdea concept on my socials. Check it out:
Feel free to express your feedback, suggestions, and whatever you have to say <3 here as well as on my socials!
All right everyone, here's my update for today 10 Jun 2026 on OpenIdea:
- Fixed "show password" button (eye) missing
- Fixed "Upload Image" when submitting a new idea (workable now)
- Added SignUp button (forgot the last session)
Feel free to test it again <3
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