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Built a dark-mode fitness app that doesn't just look good it keeps people coming back.
This is a social fitness platform designed around accountability, streaks, and squad motivation. Every screen was crafted to reduce drop-off and drive daily engagement:
š Home ā personalized greeting, today's workout front and center, squad leaderboard, and streak stats that make skipping feel costly.
š Insight ā weekly/monthly/yearly activity heatmaps, AI-powered motivational coaching copy, and achievement badges that reward consistency.
š Onboarding ā full-bleed hero image with a single, clear CTA. Converts visitors into users in one tap.
The result? An interface that feels premium, moves fast, and makes working out feel like a social event not a chore.
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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 ā Sketch ā Figma ā Prototype ā Handoff ā 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.Ā
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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