Artful Walls

A curated wallpaper app offering high-resolution public-domain paintings for mobile, desktop, and 4K screens. I designed the full UI and design system from scratch in Figma, starting with a prototype in late 2024. The dataset covers 96 works hand-picked from four sources: the Art Institute of Chicago, the Met, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and Wikimedia Commons.

The app is live at artfulwalls.app, built with Claude Code handling the development side. It supports browsing, search, filtering by device type, favourites synced via Supabase, and full-resolution downloads. It also ships as a native macOS app via a Swift wrapper. The original Figma prototype sat untouched for months until AI coding tools seemed to make it realistic to build, and I wanted to find out first-hand whether that was true.