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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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Cover image for I built Interactive Earth History
I built Interactive Earth History Explorer for the Config Makeathon. Interactive Earth History Explorer The web app allows users to travel through Earth's history by scrolling through a timeline and interacting with a 3D globe. Users can explore: Geological eras and major Earth events The evolution of life on Earth Ancient civilizations and historical milestones Important locations associated with historical events Multimedia content such as images, animations, and descriptions ————————— Target Users Students and educators History enthusiasts Parents looking for interactive learning tools ————————— Traditional methods of learning history and geology are often: Text-heavy and difficult to visualize Presented as static timelines that lack interactivity Disconnected from geographical context —————————— Solution The web application provides an immersive and interactive learning experience by combining: 🌍 Interactive 3D Globe, 📅 Scrollable Timeline, 🖼 Rich Content Cards, ✨ Immersive Storytelling ———————— My process: Pen and paper → Figma make → Using Figma make to generate ideas → Prompting it out as perfectly as I can get it to work → Connected to Figma server → Deployed live site : https://lnkd.in/g7RFUR5t linkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7472165990609395712/ instgram: https://www.instagram.com/p/DZmUh02B00jNwRs_o52NLXGX_0Ctl0j5MCfbkU0/ #ConfigMakeathon (https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?keywords=%23configmakeathon&origin=HASH_TAG_FROM_FEED) #contra (https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?keywords=%23contra&origin=HASH_TAG_FROM_FEED) #figma (https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?keywords=%23figma&origin=HASH_TAG_FROM_FEED) #ux (https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?keywords=%23ux&origin=HASH_TAG_FROM_FEED) #AI (https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?keywords=%23ai&origin=HASH_TAG_FROM_FEED) #figmakethon (https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?keywords=%23figmakethon&origin=HASH_TAG_FROM_FEED)
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Cover image for For the #ConfigMakeathon, I created
For the #ConfigMakeathon, I created Book Trace. It is a reading journal app that helps you capture thoughts while you read, and leave a personal trace when you finish. [Concept] Book Trace turns the experience of reading into something you can hold onto. Instead of forgetting what a book meant to you, you leave a Trace — one sentence, one emotion, one word. The app also reads what you wrote and tells you what kind of reader you are, with book recommendations matched to your type and genre. [Project Overview] For this submission, I designed: - Onboarding flow; - Still Reading experience with in-the-moment note capture; - Finished flow with the full Trace journey; - Reader Identity system with personalized recommendations; - Library with saved traces; - UI Kit and design system. [Workflow] I built the full product from concept to prototype in Figma. UI Kit, component library, and interactive flows all in one file. [My Experience] What I loved most about this challenge was how it pushed me to think about the full user journey, not just screens, but emotions. Book Trace started as a simple idea and grew into something that feels genuinely personal. Figma made it possible to move from rough concept to polished prototype without ever leaving the workspace. Thank you to the Figma team for a challenge that made me build something I actually want to use! Live project (https://www.figma.com/make/23Yu62OGQJ8EGDXGLiN0Pz/Book-Trace-app?p=f&t=BpeTyIoaziCOLDGL-0)LinkedIn post (https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7472198836690673665/)Community link (https://www.figma.com/community/file/1648254666469280809) If this resonates with you, a like, comment goes a long way. Thank you 🙌
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Cover image for FrameOrbit — Config Makeathon Submission
FrameOrbit — Config Makeathon Submission 📸🌀 Sharing second project for the Config Makeathon: FrameOrbit. https://cedar-thaw-04755246.figma.site/ Project published to the community. FrameOrbit is a playful camera canvas experience where taking photos feels more spatial, visual, and alive. The idea started from a simple question: What if captured photos didn’t disappear into a hidden gallery, but stayed around your camera as part of the experience? In FrameOrbit, the camera view sits in the center of a soft canvas. Every time the user captures a photo, it instantly appears as a framed image around the camera. As more photos are taken, the canvas starts to build a visual orbit of moments around the live camera view. Users can: Capture photos directly from the center camera frame See each image appear instantly around the canvas Apply different photo styles like Normal, Noir, Warm, Cool, Vivid, Fade, Retro, and Neon Drag photos around the canvas Tap any photo to open it in a cinematic full-screen viewer Move between images using previous/next navigation Save all captured images or reset the canvas The goal was to make photo capturing feel less like a utility and more like a small creative ritual, a live memory board that grows with every shot. Built with Figma Make, I focused on creating a polished interactive prototype with a soft visual system, floating photo cards, smooth viewer experience, and a simple flow that can be understood in seconds: Capture → frame appears → build your orbit → explore your moments. FrameOrbit turns the camera into a canvas. ✨ #ConfigMakeathon #FigmaMake #FrameOrbit #ProductDesign #UXDesign #UIDesign #CreativeTools #CameraApp #Prototype #Makeathon
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Cover image for Pip (https://blue-yard-23228182.figma.site) is a zero-friction
Pip (https://blue-yard-23228182.figma.site) is a zero-friction health companion built to turn tracking your health (SYMPTOMS, DIET AND MORE) into clinical clarity. It abandons rigid 0–10 numeric scales and replaces them with a compassionate, glanceable interface. ❤ Why It Was Built Pip was born out of pure personal necessity. I built it because it was something I desperately needed, and something a few close friends and someone incredibly close to my heart needed too. I wanted to strip away the clinical coldness of modern software and create something beautifully simple that could be truly, deeply helpful on someone's hardest days ⚠️ The Problem Traditional health apps suffer from "Data Collection Theater." They force users suffering from chronic illness or fatigue to rate dozens of variables daily, causing severe decision fatigue. Worse, they act as data sinks, dumping raw, chaotic charts onto doctors. In a high-stakes, 15-minute medical consultation, physicians don't have the time to audit raw logs. They need high-yield, synthesized clinical signals, not noise. Pip bridges this gap by assuming "bad days are the default," capturing symptoms effortlessly, and compiling them into a clean, one-page summary sheet. 🛠 The Figma Workflow Pipeline To bring Pip to life, I leveraged the Figma ecosystem: Figma Weave: Used to iterate and generate the visual asset layers for Pip’s mascot. Figma Agent: Brainstormed layouts directly on the canvas, instantly pairing elegant fonts and organizing simple, stress-free forms. Figma Make: Instantly turned those canvas designs and components into a live, fully working, and responsive web application while allowing rapid iteration. Live Project Link (https://blue-yard-23228182.figma.site/)Figma File Link (https://www.figma.com/make/cpBfeDwPVxmdSpfVzjfT5f/Fix-image-upload-issue?p=f&t=fX52CG0vAogdHtJ6-0) COMMUNITY LINK (https://www.figma.com/community/file/1647708710094001297)
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