Modaal Mobile Build Club: How to make your vibecoded mobile app delightful — with ex-Google, Spotify, Skype Delight PM Nesrine Changuel
AI gave us the opportunity to build mobile apps fast but it also brought a new challenge. The market of apps has exploded, and most released apps look the same and feel the same. AI made building easy, but standing out hard: how do you ship an app with a human touch - one that doesn't look vibecoded, doesn't feel vibecoded, and doesn't get deleted after the first session?
In this practical session, you'll learn how to take your AI-built mobile app from functional to delightful using the Delight framework — a method developed over a decade of building beloved products at Google, Spotify, and Microsoft. Delight is the one thing AI can't generate for you: human taste, built for humans.
We'll focus on a concrete, applicable framework, real examples from well-known mobile apps, and prompts and patterns you can bring straight back into your vibecoding workflow.
What we'll cover:
Why "functional but forgettable" is the default outcome of AI-generated apps — and how to escape it
The Delight framework intro: mapping features by functional and emotional impact with the Delight Grid; Delight Enhancers: surprise, personalization, celebration, and other patterns that create emotional pull
Breakdowns of 2-3 well-known mobile apps through the Delight lens
“Live roast”: one pre-selected builder submits their app screens in advance and gets real-time feedback through the Delight lens
Who this is for:
Founders, indie hackers, PMs, designers, and vibecoders building mobile apps with AI who want their product to feel human, polished, and loved — not generated.
Especially useful if:
your app works, but something is missing
you're preparing for launch and want to stand out
you're competing in a crowded category where everyone ships the same generic app
you want a repeatable method for delight, not one-off design tricks
About our speaker, Nesrine:
Nesrine Changuel is a product coach, speaker, and author with over a decade of product leadership at Google, Spotify, and Microsoft. At Google she served as a dedicated "Delight PM" — a role focused entirely on making products like Chrome and Google Meet more delightful. She holds a PhD from Bell Labs in collaboration with UCLA.
She's the author of Product Delight, the book behind the Delight Model — practical tools like the Delight Grid and Delight Enhancers that help teams turn emotional insight into product impact. Today she coaches founders and product teams worldwide on building products people truly love.
Hosted by Elena Avramenko, co-founder of Modaal.
Modaal is the native mobile builder (iOS/Android) for solopreneurs who are serious about what they ship. Build a real Swift and Kotlin app with real architecture. Nothing gets thrown away. No rebuilds when you grow. Flat monthly price — plug in the AI agent you already use.
modaal.dev