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Craft: the discipline of caring about the parts users never see, because those are the parts that decide whether the visible parts keep working.
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As textile production gets infinitley more mechanised, traditional forms of textile making often get forgotten. Leaving these centuries old cultural pillars at risk of extinction.
With my entry for the #configmakeathon, I aimed to tackle this porblem by digitally preserving 3 of India's textile crafts, in an interactive gameplay tutorial that thakes users through the pre-production, weaving, dyeing and detailing processes of creating these crafts.
By removing the barrier to entry to produce these crafts, it allows the indigenous knowledge of these textile crafts to be preserved and and enjoyed by the masses.
After you complete the textile making process, your work joins a community quilt, showcasing a live collection of all the users works.
Add your piece. Keep the craft alive.
Check out the linked post to see the video walkthrough as well as the live link to the website! I hope you like it :)
By Hand helps preserve the knowledge and craft of India's endangered heritage textiles.
Through a series of interactive, game-like interfaces, you learn how these textiles are made, step by step, becoming part of a digital textile workshop. You don't just read about the craft;...
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By Hand helps preserve the knowledge and craft of India's endangered heritage textiles.
Through a series of interactive, game-like interfaces, you learn how these textiles are made, step by step, becoming part of a digital textile workshop. You don't just read about the craft; you practise it
Three interactive, game-like makers guide you through the real process, step by step: block-printing Ajrakh, weaving Muga silk, and stitching Banjara embroidery. Every piece you complete joins one growing collective quilt.
Every piece you make is sewn into one growing collective quilt - a shared archive stitched by everyone who takes part in preserving these heritage textiles, because these crafts aren't vanishing from the shelves. They're vanishing from the hands that know how to make them.
Three endangered crafts. One shared cloth. Built in Figma Make.
Here is the working link to the site - https://byhand.figma.site
Here is the social media post Link
Built using Figma Make, Figma Weave, and Figma Design.
I built a pair of glasses for designers.
Upload a mobile screenshot and see your design through the conditions real users face every day: bright sunlight, color blindness, low vision, a shaky commute or a scratched screen.
Each lens does two things. It changes how your design looks. And it points out what might break, with concrete accessibility findings mapped to WCAG criteria and one line fixes you can actually act on.
The idea came from a simple thought: Accessibility is not an edge case.
It is you checking your phone outside.
It is your mum turning up display zoom.
It is someone trying to tap a button on the bus.
It is a scratched screen that turns a perfect UI into a confusing one.
Designers wear many glasses turns that reality into something you can feel immediately.
It is not pretending to be a full accessibility audit. It is a fast, visual gut check that helps designers notice problems before users have to struggle with them.
Built in @Figma Make for the #ConfigMakeathon.
Try it yourself: https://designers-wear-many-glasses.figma.site
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