To be completely honest, I had never used Renoise before this week. I stumbled upon the challenge, had some free time, and decided to dive headfirst into the tool.
My designer brain went completely wild. I spent my first 800 credits chasing massive, cinematic ideas, trying to morph human faces, open magical nature portals, and create a Hollywood-level masterpiece. But AI video is a beast, and after burning through almost my entire budget with distorted results, I hit a wall. With exactly 200 credits left and feeling ready to give up, I decided to stop forcing abstract complexity and embrace what I actually know best as a Webflow developer: grids, interfaces, and structural layouts.
What I Made:
This 15-second short film is the result of that final, desperate credit run. It starts with a grand, high-budget illusion—a majestic cosmic monolith floating in a deep space nebula, covered in glowing neon matrix data lines. But right when the viewer gets comfortable, the narrative delivers a sudden, meta plot twist. The camera violently pulls back to reveal that this entire grand universe is actually just a flat, disposable image asset block sitting inside a dark-mode visual design interface. A giant white mouse cursor glides into the frame, clicks the universe, and deletes it, leaving nothing but a blank canvas and a blinking cursor.
In a way, the twist mirrors my exact experience with the challenge: building up a massive world in my head, only to hit delete and start completely fresh on a blank canvas.
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A week ago, I asked myself a simple question:
How do you actually train your design eye?
As a Webflow & Framer developer, I spend a lot of time implementing design decisions. But I became curious about the thinking behind those decisions and whether my own instincts aligned with experienced designers.
So I built EyeCheck.
A design perception experiment that explores typography, spacing, hierarchy, color, imagery, and visual judgment through a series of challenges.
What surprised me most while building it wasn't which answers people chose.
It was how often they disagreed.
Some decisions reached overwhelming consensus.
Others split almost perfectly down the middle.
And those conversations ended up being far more interesting than finding a "correct" answer.
Built for the #ConfigMakeathon using Figma.
I'd love to know:
Which question challenged your instincts the most?
đź”—https://eye-check.figma.site/
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