Created more than 365 micro-UIs for a year that sparked a new design trend

For 365 days I designed and published a brand-new square widget (plus the occasional icon) every single day. The experiment snowballed into a trend that thousands of designers followed, spawning themed weeks, live workshops, and entire widget libraries used in real products.

Over twelve months I kept a one-widget-per-day streak on a 1 × 1 canvas, using themed weeks from Weather to Frosted Glass turn single posts into miniature systems.

Each day whether squeezed into a spare five-minute burst or stretched into a two-hour deep dive I opened a blank 1 × 1 canvas, explored color, type, and motion until a fresh widget felt complete, exported the asset, wrote a concise design note, and published before logging off. I set my own occasional theme weeks to see how a single visual language could evolve over seven consecutive posts, but otherwise let the series unfold organically: some widgets exploded with thousands of likes, others quietly joined the archive, all contributing to an unbroken 365-day streak that steadily sharpened my craft and grew a living library for the design community.

Widgets with textual UI

Glowing...

Driving related widgets

As the series gained traction, product groups began booking me for live “widget jam” sessions. In these one-to-two-hour workshops we tore through sketchpads in Figma, identified the moments in their apps that would benefit from micro-widgets, and drafted cohesive mini-libraries on the spot.

From fintech dashboards that needed glanceable P&L tiles to wellness apps craving playful habit trackers, each jam ended with a polished starter set and a roadmap for turning the favourites into production components.

The collaborations proved that a fast, theme-driven approach can move real products forward—inspiring teams to keep the momentum long after the session wrapped.

The daily-widget experiment snowballed into real-world change. The public feed climbed past a quarter-million impressions and more than thirty thousand saves, while at least eight hundred documented remakes turned the concepts into a bona-fide micro-widget trend.

Product teams that booked live “widget-jam” sessions now maintain in-house libraries inspired by the series and report cutting prototyping time by roughly half, rolling polished components to production in weeks instead of months.

The open Figma files have entered design-school syllabi and appear in annual UI-trend round-ups, demonstrating that disciplined, playful practice can ripple outward and drive measurable product velocity.

The one that got not enough attention, but it looks amazing