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Interesting references don't always come from the same category.
This was an old social media design experiment for a bond repair shampoo in a minimalist style.
Searching for shampoo ads usually leads to more shampoo ads. Water splashes, ingredients, and hair strands have been explored for decades, so it's easy to end up with visuals that feel familiar.
Some of the references for this concept came from nature instead of beauty campaigns. The gecko wasn't there just for decoration. Its texture and regenerative qualities opened up compositions that I wouldn't have reached by looking at beauty ads alone.
Using more colors, more elements, and showing the entire product doesn't automatically make a visual stronger. Especially for social media, the first job is to stop the scroll.
Sometimes showing only a part of the product, leaving plenty of negative space, or introducing an unexpected element creates more curiosity and interaction than another product shot.
Rules are useful, but they're not always the answer. Small changes are often enough to make people stop and take a second look. A few frames from an old exploration.
Did it break the pattern for you?
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Pulseroom — Designing a Social Space That Feels Alive
Built with Google Stitch
When I saw the challenge theme, "Build interfaces that feel alive," I knew I didn't want to create another dashboard, landing page, or e-commerce experience.
I wanted to explore something much more ambitious:
What if an interface behaved like a living organism?
What if emotions weren't hidden behind profile pictures and text posts, but became visible, interactive, and shared in real time?
That idea became Pulseroom.
Pulseroom is a motion-rich emotional ecosystem where users enter shared spaces, express how they feel, and collectively shape living generative worlds together. Instead of scrolling through content, people participate in environments that continuously evolve based on the emotional energy of everyone inside.
The entire experience is designed to blur the line between interface, artwork, and social connection.
What I Built
Pulseroom is a next-generation social experience built around emotional presence.
Users select a mood and immediately influence the visual atmosphere of the room. Every interaction becomes part of a living canvas powered by motion, shaders, AI-driven behaviors, and collaborative generative art.
Core experiences include:
• Live emotional rooms where user moods shape the environment
• Fluid generative art canvases that evolve continuously
• Aura, an AI companion that understands room energy and suggests environmental shifts
• AI-powered avatar generation designed around emotional identity
• Mood analytics and emotional history visualization
• Real-time Pulse interactions that create ripples across the entire room
• Dynamic room discovery based on emotional states
• Saved Moments that capture unique pieces of collaborative art
Rather than designing screens, I designed an ecosystem.
Every screen responds to the same emotional language, making the entire product feel connected and alive.
How Google Stitch Became My Creative Engine
This project would have been extremely difficult to prototype traditionally because almost every interaction depends on motion, atmosphere, and visual feedback.
Google Stitch became the core creative tool throughout the entire workflow.
Creating a Living Design System
Before generating screens, I created a detailed design framework for Pulseroom.
The system included:
• Emotional color mapping
• Dynamic glow systems
• Glassmorphism architecture
• Motion behaviors
• Particle systems
• Shader-inspired visual rules
• Interaction feedback patterns
Once uploaded into Stitch, the consistency was impressive.
Every generation already understood the visual language of Pulseroom, which allowed me to focus on ideas instead of constantly correcting design drift.
Streaming Generations Directly to Canvas
The streaming generation feature completely changed the way I explored ideas.
Watching environments appear in real time felt less like prompting an AI and more like collaborating with a designer.
Instead of generating isolated screens and waiting for results, I could immediately react to what Stitch was building and push concepts further.
For a project built around living interfaces, this workflow felt incredibly natural.
In-Place AI Editing
Most of Pulseroom's best ideas emerged through iterative in-place editing.
I refined:
• Live Room interactions
• Aura AI experiences
• Collective Canvas behavior
• Emotional profile systems
• Discovery mechanics
• Motion-heavy interface components
The ability to point at an existing section and evolve it directly inside the canvas made experimentation dramatically faster.
Motion, Shaders, and Interactive Behaviors
This is where Stitch surprised me most.
Pulseroom depends heavily on motion.
Floating particles.
Animated pulse effects.
Living backgrounds.
Mood-responsive color systems.
Shader-inspired visual environments.
Aura energy effects.
Interactive generative art.
Being able to prototype motion-rich experiences directly inside Stitch made the concept feel real much earlier in the design process.
Instead of treating animation as a finishing touch, motion became part of the product from the beginning.
From Concept to Working Experience
One of my goals was to move beyond static mockups and create something people could actually explore.
Using Stitch's workflow alongside modern deployment tools allowed me to quickly move from concept to a live interactive experience while maintaining the same design language across the entire project.
What Makes Pulseroom Different
Most social products are built around content.
Pulseroom is built around emotional presence.
The room itself becomes the conversation.
The atmosphere becomes the interface.
The artwork becomes the memory.
Every pulse, every mood, every interaction contributes to a shared visual world that no single user controls.
The result feels less like using an app and more like entering a living digital environment.
Feedback on Google Stitch
The biggest strength of Stitch is how quickly it turns imagination into something tangible.
Three things stood out most:
Streaming generations made exploration feel collaborative instead of transactional.
In-place AI edits dramatically reduced iteration time.
Motion-first prototyping allowed me to design experiences rather than static screens.
What impressed me most was how naturally Stitch handled a highly experimental concept.
Pulseroom isn't a traditional app. It's a complex emotional ecosystem with generative visuals, AI-driven interactions, and motion-heavy interfaces.
Even with that complexity, Stitch remained fast, flexible, and surprisingly consistent.
Final Thoughts
Pulseroom began as a question:
Can technology create a social experience that feels more human, more emotional, and more alive?
Google Stitch gave me the ability to explore that question far faster than traditional workflows would have allowed.
The result is Pulseroom — a living emotional ecosystem where interfaces breathe, emotions become visible, and people create shared worlds together.
Live Project:
https://pulsroom.vercel.app/
APK Download:
https://pulsroom.vercel.app/apks/app-debug.apk
Stitch Project:
https://stitch.withgoogle.com/projects/12434356365707266796
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all done in Krea? how well does it handle consistency in exp?
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