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Developed and maintained the BlackVue mobile application for iOS as a freelance mobile developer.
Implemented and maintained key features including Wi-Fi Direct communication, live view streaming, video playback, cloud integration, authentication, and App Store releases.
Technologies: Swift, Objective-C, BLE, REST API, Wi-Fi Direct, Apple Sign In, Google Sign-In, SQLite
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I've been testing a new app design workflow this weekend, and it feels fundamentally different from how I've worked for the past 20 years.
Normally my process looks something like:
Idea → Sketch → Figma → Prototype → Handoff → Build
This time I skipped most of it.
I wanted to see how far I could come without Figma using Codex. My first prompt was simply:
"Create a meal-planning app using the Build-iOS-App plugin."
It built a full app for me, but the first version was very generic, so I gave it a few design references and some visual guidelines and asked it to generate 3 different design mockups. Codex generated new design directions, I picked one and it applied the directly to the working prototype.
Mindblown. But then I asked it to create a logo inspired by another food app.
It did and even implemented it into the app directly together with an app icon.
No Figma involved.
As if this wasn't enough I was also testing a setup that exposes the iOS Simulator directly inside Codex using serve-sim.
That meant I could review the running app, click on areas I didn't like, leave comments such as "too much space here", and have Codex update the implementation directly.
No alt-tabbing between Xcode, simulator and Codex just to explain a simple detail.
Within about an hour I had a working prototype, visual design direction, branding, app icon, and multiple design iterations.
The quality wasn't perfect, but that's not what stood out to me.
What stood out was how little time I spent creating design artifacts.
Most of my time was spent reviewing, directing, and refining.
For early-stage product exploration, this felt less like designing screens and more like art directing a system.
I'm not convinced tools like Figma are going anywhere, but I do think workflows are changing much faster than most of us realize.
Has anyone else been experimenting with similar design-to-code workflows?
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Last Seen - Places disappear. Their stories don't have to.
Last Seen is an archive of lost places and the memories people left behind. A living record of the places that shaped us, before they disappear from memory as completely as they have from maps.
The research
Before writing a line of code I posted to Reddit. "What closed place do you still think about?" Three subreddits. Three cities. 217,000 views. 1,652 replies. The Astoria. Shunt Vaults. CBGB. Florent. The problem was real before I built anything.
The Figma workflow
Figma Weave generated the visual language, aged paper textures, film grain overlays, archival map treatments. The Design Agent built the complete design system from a single prompt, colour styles, typography, eight components, page layouts, brand guidelines. The result is a 16-frame horizontal brand identity deck published to the Figma Community.
Two Figma Make widgets built and published to Community, Memory of the Day and Still Here, pulling real memories from a live Supabase database in real time.
The product
Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind, Supabase, Mapbox GL JS, Vercel. 103 places across five cities. A heatmap showing where memory concentrates across continents. Real memories from real people. An admin queue, rate limiting, auto-geocoding, profanity filtering, i18n across six languages.
825 unique visitors in three days. The archive keeps growing.
The workflow
Reddit validation, Figma Weave, Design Agent, Figma Make, live product. In 24 hours.
Design System - https://www.figma.com/design/Kn81kFZfmAOf9OJkzUGohk/Last-Seen?node-id=0-1&t=JJ7SBoTiIzpf07OZ-1
Figma Make - https://glassy-sky-12636665.figma.site
Project link - https://www.lastseen.city
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