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Built a sermon note-taking application designed to help users capture, organize, and reference sermon content in a structured format. Users can create and store notes for personal study as well as share them with others for collaborative learning and reference.
The app emphasizes fast note entry, clean organization, and easy retrieval, with sharing functionality enabling distribution of sermon insights via text or external platforms. Focus was placed on simplicity, usability, and an uninterrupted writing experience during live sermons and study sessions
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I am mobile app and website developer
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?
Good work
I didn't set out to build another educational app.
I started with a simple question:
How can screen time become more meaningful for children and their families?
That question led me to create WonderTrail.
WonderTrail is an educational adventure designed for children aged 6–10, where reading, math, science, creativity and storytelling become part of one magical journey.
Children explore new worlds, complete challenges, unlock achievements and build confidence through learning.
But WonderTrail isn't just for children.
Parents are part of the adventure too.
A bedtime story becomes a shared moment.
A completed level becomes a celebration.
A badge becomes a parent saying, "I'm proud of you."
In a world where technology often competes for attention, I wanted to explore how it could strengthen learning, curiosity and family connection instead.
WonderTrail transforms screen time into meaningful learning, meaningful achievement and meaningful family moments.
Built with Figma Make for the Config Makeathon.
🔗 Prototype:
https://coding-twine-66859616.figma.site/
#Config2026 #FigmaMakeathon #FigmaMake #EdTech #Education #Learning #Parenting
Just explored WonderTrail with my child and I'm impressed.
Most apps compete for attention.
This one encourages curiosity, learning and shared family moments.
The mix of stories, math, science and creativity is really well done.
Excited to see where this project goes.
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