Redesign an admin feature with multiple design options
A user asked Codex to redesign an admin feature and produce five designs, and liked all of them.
Done withCodex
- What they did
- The poster was using Codex CLI alongside other coding agents on a language-learning platform and described it as a calmer tool for UI and refactor work. For this case, they asked it to redesign an admin feature and produce five design options, and said Codex followed the prompt closely, worked incrementally, and only suggested next steps after finishing; the human reviewed the options and chose what they liked.
- How it went
- They said they loved all five designs and, more broadly, that Codex had avoided loops and tended to get changes right on the first pass. The thread gives no screenshots, implementation details, or measured business result for the redesign itself.
- Worth knowing
- The most concrete catch is tool choice: the poster was specifically talking about Codex CLI, not the web version.
Try it yourself with Codex
In my codebase at [repo path], redesign the [admin feature name] screen. Produce five distinct design options, each in its own file or branch under [folder], with a short note on the tradeoffs of each. Don't touch the existing implementation. You're done when all five run or preview and I can compare them.
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