I made an app. A slightly different project for me. For years, I’ve tracked my daily habits using...

I made an app. A slightly different project for me. For years, I’ve tracked my daily habits using...I made an app. A slightly different project for me. For years, I’ve tracked my daily habits using...

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callum gardiner

• Aug 23

I made an app.

A slightly different project for me.

For years, I’ve tracked my daily habits using an orange Post-it note. Write down what I want to get done, tick it off, start again tomorrow.

I’d tried habit tracking apps, but always ended up back with the Post-it. I didn’t need dashboards, streaks, graphs or endless features. I just wanted something simple.

So I decided to build it myself.

Takto is my first iOS app — designed and built from scratch, taking it from an idea and some early Figma designs through to a real product on the App Store.

As a UX designer rather than a developer, a big part of the project was seeing how far I could push myself outside my usual role, using AI to help me actually build and ship the thing rather than stopping at a prototype.

The result is deliberately small. Add your habits. Do them. Tick them off. Your progress gradually fills the screen throughout the day.

No grand startup plan behind it. I wanted to make something I’d genuinely use, learn how to build a real product, and actually get it out into the world.

Quite nice seeing something that started as an orange Post-it sitting on my desk become an actual app. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/takto/id6796480445 #UXDesign #ProductDesign #iOSDesign #AppDesign #IndieApp #BuildInPublic #AIDesign #Takto

UI Design UX Design Vibe Coder ChatGPT Figma

Bella Brillantes

pro

• Aug 25

Love how clean and straightforward it looks!

Picto Design Studio

pro

• Aug 25

👏🔥🔥

MD Rafee Alam

• Aug 25

Shipping past the prototype is the hard part most designers skip, and it shows here, the screens are as restrained as the Post-it note that inspired them.

Bernice Ebenezer

max

• Aug 27

Clean design👍

Saad Zaman

• Aug 28

The Post-it worked because it sat in your eyeline all day. A home-screen or Lock Screen widget in WidgetKit gets Takto back to that, progress fill right there without opening the app. Timeline updates are cheap for something that only changes on a tap.

Mark Barliet

pro

• Aug 30

Refusing streaks and graphs and keeping it to add/do/tick is the harder call — a Post-it note user never asked for a dashboard, and most habit apps add one anyway because it's easier to design than genuine restraint.

Evgeny Elgin

• Sep 11

Seasonal identity for Beat Film Festival. The challenge: create a concept where cinema helps audiences process a turbulent cultural and historical moment — staying relevant and resonant rather than offering escape from it. The identity metaphor for BFF is a shared journey —  audience and festival alike searching for solid ground.  "Get on Board" is an invitation to hop into the same boat, riding together the waves of emotion sparked by film and shaped by the turbulence around us. Beat becomes the lighthouse in that storm — a sense of safety, belonging, and a moment worth sharing.

Art Direction Brand Design Graphic Design Adobe Illustrator Adobe Photoshop Figma

Mahmudul Hasan Manik

pro

• Sep 14

The gradient makes the whole identity special, what do you think?

susie aminian

• Sep 11

AI fashion editorial. I used a selfie, a photo of the Nour Hammour "Sandy" coat, and leveraged GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst + Seedance 2.5. That Nour Hammour Paris coat is on my wishlist.