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Cover image for Proud to share my submission
Proud to share my submission for the #configMakeathon 🦋 Design has one job — make people feel something before they think something. For the #ConfigMakeathon, I built a complete digital campaign experience for Butterfly Conservation's "Britain's Favourite Butterfly" — taking a public vote and transforming it into something people actually want to be part of. The challenge wasn't technical. It was human. How do you make someone genuinely care about a species they've never noticed? How do you turn conservation data into something personal? How do you design an experience that moves people from passive viewers to active participants? The answer was architecture — three distinct experiences working as one: 🗳️ Results Explorer — A fully filterable species discovery system built around personality vibes, wing colours, and rarity. Not a leaderboard. A world worth exploring. 🧬 Personality Quiz — A matching experience that gives every user a butterfly identity rooted in real behavioural traits. Flashy. Feisty. Adventurous. Rare. When someone sees themselves in a species, the relationship changes entirely. 🌿 Conservation Narrative — A story-first approach to ecological data that earns its urgency rather than demanding it. The stakes land harder when you already have a favourite. This is the kind of work I find most meaningful — where design isn't decoration, it's the strategy itself. 🔗 Prototype:Prototype (https://www.figma.com/proto/QYomw4hbRvnUu9D4gWN1hu/Untitled?node-id=1-668&t=7Qi822ZqT2xffB6I-0&scaling=min-zoom&content-scaling=fixed&page-id=0%3A1&starting-point-node-id=1%3A668) Built with Figma · Figma Make · MCP #ConfigMakeathon #Figma #UXDesign #ProductDesign #DesignForGood #ButterflyConservation @Figma @Contra @Contra HQ
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Cover image for Found Type - A living
Found Type - A living alphabet, found in the wild Found Type is a collaborative web app where people photograph letters of the alphabet found in the real world - on walls, signs, buildings, packaging, pavements - and together build a living typeface made entirely by the world. The premise is simple: letters are everywhere. Every one of them is a design decision made by someone, somewhere. Found Type turns that into a collective archive. Try it here: https://slogan-noise-47844386.figma.site/ ✨ The experience - A pannable, zoomable canvas of every submitted letter - alive and growing in real time - Browse the full alphabet: each letter a mosaic of real-world finds from around the world - Type any word and see it spelled out in found letters - Submit your own: photograph, crop, tag, and your letter is live in seconds ⭐ What makes it different: No accounts. No friction. One flow, one purpose. The more people contribute, the more beautiful it becomes. 📍 How it was built: - The entire front-end was built in Figma Make, prompt by prompt, iterated screen by screen. - The submission flow uses the Anthropic Vision API to validate every photo: confirming it shows a real letter, checking the tag matches, and generating a plain-English description stored in Supabase for moderation - meaning the collection stays clean without user accounts or manual review of every submission. - Image processing happens entirely client-side via the Browser Canvas API: crop, resize to 800×800, compress - before anything reaches Supabase storage. 🛠️ Tools used - Figma Make - full front-end - Anthropic Vision API - AI validation + moderation - Supabase - real-time database and image storage - Browser Canvas API - client-side image processing 🔮 What's next - A downloadable font made entirely from submitted photos. - Filters by country, colour, style. - A printed poster of the full collection. - Contributor profiles.
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Cover image for I watched Apple's 108-second event
I watched Apple's 108-second event (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mO8zBQqpTmY)recap and couldn't stop thinking about one thing. No voiceover. No presenter. Just words, motion, and rhythm. Short sentences. Each one a beat. The entire year of Apple products - described in 108 seconds through kinetic typography alone. That moment became TypeDeck. The idea: What if After Effects had a baby with PowerPoint - and it was actually simple enough for anyone to use in minutes? No timeline. No keyframes. No layers. Just write your script and watch it become a film. I Built the entire app UI and animation engine from prompt to code. The behavior-based animation architecture, the script editor, the rhythm strip, all of it with use of Figma Make. What TypeDeck does: → Paste your script — every sentence auto-converts into an animated scene. → Copy a style with Ctrl+C, paste it across every slide with Ctrl+V. → Hook accent words with asterisks — they get a color treatment automatically. → Apply flat color, gradients, or drop in images and video as backgrounds. → Export and import projects. Built-in music. Everything in one place. The problem it solves: After Effects has a learning curve measured in months. Canva has templates but no motion depth. There's nothing in between that gives a founder, marketer, or creator the ability to make a genuinely beautiful motion video in under 20 minutes - until now. TypeDeck is free to use. Start to create your stunning videos today. https://www.figma.com/make/oK7XsVbAKpa4LulmGxJ5Py/TypeDeck?t=sKtdidrjE34hmLjQ-20&fullscreen=1 Video Demo: https://www.loom.com/share/6d621cc245094653baef910544523072
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