05 — Playful Experience · Creative Frontend
Sunflower Garden
A small interactive garden built around warmth, affection, and the simple idea that some things should just make you smile.
- React·
- Animation·
- Interactive UI·
- Responsive Design
What it is
A small, playful garden of interactive sunflowers that respond to touch and hold hidden notes.
The idea
Not every gift needs to be grand — this one is intentionally light, built purely to make someone smile for a minute.
Design direction
Soft yellows and warm cream, with rounder shapes and gentler motion than the rest of the portfolio's projects.
Interaction
Hovering or tapping a sunflower triggers a small, satisfying animation and reveals a note underneath.
Technical implementation
A lightweight React app using CSS and JS-driven animation, kept deliberately dependency-light for fast load times.
Challenges
Getting the motion to feel playful rather than gimmicky took several rounds of easing and timing adjustments.