I just like making things like this. I made this one as an experiment without opening a single de...I just like making things like this. I made this one as an experiment without opening a single de...
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I made this one as an experiment without opening a single design app. Basically, I just kept telling Codex what I wanted it to do.
It’s not a magic button. It took around 100 prompts and quite a few hours. But the fact that you can make something like this just by talking, without touching a keyboard or mouse, is still pretty wild.
And the whole thing runs and renders right in the browser.
The fact that this took 100 prompts makes the result more impressive—the visual system feels deliberately art-directed, not like a raw generated output.
100 prompts and it renders live in the browser is the part that gets me, no export step between the idea and the thing moving on screen. The little character's personality survives the geometry around it too.
What if one of the most meaningful messages you ever receive… is written by a version of you that no longer exists?
That question became Dear Future my submission for the #Base44Challenge.
We save photos.
We save messages.
We save memories.
But we rarely preserve who we were in that exact moment what we were thinking, hoping for, afraid of, or becoming.
So I designed a digital time capsule where your words don’t just get stored.
They wait for you.
With Dear Future, you can:
✦ Write a letter to your future self or someone else
✦ Add memories and images
✦ Choose the exact future date it should return
✦ Personalize your capsule with colours and seals
✦ Seal it so it can’t be read or edited before its opening date
✦ Watch the countdown inside your personal archive
✦ Return later and experience the letter as something preserved not just another notification
But the biggest design challenge wasn’t creating a way to send a letter later.
It was designing the wait.
As a Senior Product & UI/UX Designer, I wanted every interaction to support that idea.
The archive.
The physical capsule metaphor.
The vintage television.
The sealing ritual.
The countdown.
The responsive mobile experience.
None of them are there just for decoration. Together, they turn anticipation into part of the product.
I designed the UX, visual system, interaction language, responsive experience, storytelling, and complete product flow then built and shipped the working experience with @Base44.
This project reminded me why I love product design:
A good interface helps someone complete a task.
A meaningful experience makes them feel something while doing it.