Designed and vibe-coded Plug & Brew, a WFH Cafe Finder for New Yorkers to find their daily remote-work-friendly cafe in the city.


I designed the end-to-end experience and vibe-coded the full-stack development.

Designed and vibe-coded Plug & Brew, a WFH Cafe Finder for New Yorkers to find their daily remote-work-friendly cafe in the city.


I designed the end-to-end experience and vibe-coded the full-stack development.

Vibe Coding, Full-stack Development, Product/UXUI Design (Mobile) | Social, Retail, Travel

Vibe Coding, Full-stack Development, Product/UXUI Design (Mobile) | Social, Retail, Travel

Goals

  • Design the entire end-to-end app experience.

  • Develop the app full-stack, leveraging AI tools (vibe coding).

  • Build a brand and UI design system.

Features + Flows

  • Discovery to Arrival

  • Search

  • Substitute Suggestions

Role

Product/UXUI Designer

Design Engineer

Vibe Coding Developer

Duration

Jul - Aug, 2026

(1 month)

Design Process / Workflow

Design Process / Workflow

1

Plan the development

Elevated app concepts, identified market gap, defined product development roadmap.

2

Source data

Defined necessary data attributes, leveraged Cursor, and wrote and ran scripts to pull cafe data via Google API.

3

Clean up and enrich metadata

  • Cleaned up draft data pulling from Google API, removed junk and repeated results, and added empty columns for missing attributes.

  • Enriched data, pulled attributes from reviews by mining review text in Claude.

  • Manually verify and correct ambiguous tags and finalise the data spreadsheet.

4

UXUI design and design system building

Designed end-to-end experience, built brand system and UI design system.

5

Front-end development

Use Figma x Cursor MCP to turn screens, flows, and logic into front-end code directly.

6

Back-end development

Prompted Cursor to build the backend on Vercel.

7

Deploy on Vercel

Prompted Cursor to build the backend on Vercel.

8

Next Step: V2 iteration in progress

ยฉ 2026 by Crystal Chen, with ๐Ÿ’—

ยฉ 2026 by Crystal Chen, with ๐Ÿ’—