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AI Assisted Design& Development
Add Salt
Add Salt started as a way to understand what it actually means to build a native iOS app with AI. It turned into something I actually want to use.
2026
Most recipe apps are organised around storage and retrieval. The pleasure of cooking gets lost somewhere between the ingredient list and the timer. I wanted something that felt more like a cookbook and less like a database.
There was a second problem: I wanted to know what AI-assisted development actually feels like in practice, not as a concept. So I built the whole thing myself. SwiftUI, CloudKit, an OCR importer that reads cookbook pages, a scraper that parses recipe URLs. Everything via Claude Code in combination with Xcode.
What this meant in practice: I spent time on decisions, not on plumbing. The hard parts (sync, import, shared accounts) are solved. The app now includes a weekly meal planner that accounts for time, budget and what the kids will actually eat.
Role: Designer & developer / Stack: SwiftUI, CloudKit, Apple Vision, Python, Claude Code
Currently in beta via TestFlight.
AI-assisted design & development
Design tools have always shaped what designers can make. AI changes the speed at which ideas become tangible. These two projects explore what that looks like in practice: one on the product design side, one as a solo development project.
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