Advanced Prototyping in Figma
In this blog post, I want to share how I overcome a challenge when building an interactive Add-to-Cart flow in Figma using advanced prototyping features like local variables, conditionals, and expressions. Inspired by this video tutorial, I followed the steps to create a working Add-to-Cart flow with 4 products. However, the free version of Figma has a limitation—it only allows interactions for up to 4 products. If you want more, you’d have to upgrade to the paid version, which costs around €70 per month. ...
Read Morei thought it was easy to stitch with a machine
I want to take you on a wild ride through my experience with owning an embroidery machine. Buckle up, because it's been one heck of a journey! When I first got my hands on that shiny new machine, I was pumped. I thought to myself, "Piece of cake! I'll be stitching awesome designs on t-shirts in no time." Oh, how wrong I was. It didn't take long for reality to hit me like a ton of bricks ...
Read Moredrawing a fantasy map should be fun
First things first, it took me about 200 hours, including watching dozens of tutorials like how to draw a forest to got to the point I was quite satisfied. For God’s sake, I re-draw my mountain range three time. Which took me about 20 hours everytime. Just for the sake of my own happiness. I never asked anybody if they liked it tho. And there are hundreds of possibilities how to draw it and I only tried three ...
Read Morecreating a fictional culture based on a real one
For the sake of my story I created six different cultures. I didn’t waste a lot of time which real culture was the most fitting, I choose the ones I was most interested in and wrote them in a way that readers want to know more about them. Our protagonist was born in Noviss, so I spend a lot of time there. I started with selecting a language which was Latin and thought of some kind of history as a start ...
Read Morea game for nobles, common people and gods
The board game "Schtale" is as old as Dekmos itself and everyone in Dekmos knows and plays it. And together with the book, Dekmos comes alive; it is not limited to the thoughts of the reader, but the story comes to life within one's own four walls ...
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