There's a moment every designer knows. You've been staring at the same file for three days and you can't see it anymore. You need someone to tell you the truth, but everyone around you is either too polite or too busy.
The signs were always there. Ask the universe. ✨
Tarot critique is the Major Arcana, reread for designers. You paste your portfolio URL, turn the cards, and somewhere between a few centuries of borrowed wisdom and the thing you already knew but wouldn't admit, the reading finds you.
Not your love life. Your work. The hierarchy that isn't working, the story you're not telling, the thing that has to go.
Draw your cards. The deck has been waiting. 🌙
https://tarot-critique.figma.site/
Made in Figma Make ✺ cards in Reve ✺ assets in Figma Weave
Figma community: https://www.figma.com/community/file/1649526102616790249
Twitter post: https://x.com/isadc_/status/2067697682773102721?s=20
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I've been building a tiny illustrated room where you can play around with little interactions.
Honestly, getting everything to click into place was harder than I expected. There's a particular kind of stubbornness that kicks in when something is 90% there and you keep nudging pixels until 2am.
And still, every time I do one of these I'm a little amazed. The fact that I can have an idea in the morning and a working thing by evening (okay, several evenings), as a designer with no dev background, is wild.
A new home for my portfolio, you can play with it here: https://isadecuppis.com/
A brand system built around ideas needed images that could hold abstract thinking without turning literal. So I went looking for dreamlike spaces: small worlds a concept could live inside, recognisable as a family but never quite repeating.
Reve made the exploring genuinely fun, and most of the work was in the nipping and tucking, chasing the small details until everything clicked.
Between 2018 and 2019, I built The End of Emotional Privacy (https://martinasoles.framer.website/work/the-end-of-emotional-privacy-a-speculative-design-thesis-on-emotional-surveillance), my Master's thesis at IAAC exploring how empathy could be felt physically.
I designed a bodysuit that translates emotions into real-time heat, using infrared sensors to read body temperature and heat pads built from conductive thread, so happiness, sadness, anxiety, and fear could be physically felt on the wearer's back. I paired it with a live p5.js visualization so people could see the detected emotional state as well as feel it.
It was selected for Global Grad Show in Dubai, later exhibited at the Design Museum of Barcelona, and covered by El País and TV3.
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For Braby's, my baby-first concept restaurant, I'm exploring the idea of a BLW (baby-led weaning) menu.
Not sure how realistic this could be in a real restaurant because of how chaotic it could get (I'm currently exploring this at home with my own baby), but I had fun designing the menu!
It works as a seasonal checklist of foods your baby should be introduced to, and it gets more interesting as your baby grows. As for the adults accompanying the babies, they can just get the +12 months tapas available on the menu, so babies and family get to eat the same! Except that we might want to add salt and some condiments to make it more yummy.
Again, this is just a concept, but what do you think?
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Currently working on a baby first restaurant. This is the mood and a first draft of the logo. What do you think?
AI Product Design, Development and Marketing for https://calmcrew.app
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First Wave Challenge Entry: Payments 3.0
New Web3 milestone-based escrow payments with blockchain verifiability. Improved AI-powered reputation profiles. Human in the Loop API & Human Creativity Benchmark.
Contra Product page: https://contra.com/products/0YKuROPJ-contra-payments-30
Live Demo: https://payments3-0.manus.space (https://payments3-0.manus.space/)