Arindma Singh

NFC linked ceramic fortune cookie

Ceramic cookie on a desk, tapping a phone

Handmade pottery gift + digital daily affirmations fortune cookie experience for a friend who works in Film and TV. I VLOGGED THE PROCESS.

Role
Designer and maker: content, interaction, build
Time
3 days
Type
Personal project, a birthday gift
Tools
Figma, Claude Code
Watch me struggle with pottery
Storytelling sells anything
Don't look like cookies at allDelusion: fortune cookie comparison
The whole ideaaa
How I did it
After a lot of back and forth: the quotes bankWe hate AI slop
Digital fortune cookie experience + NFC tag assembly
One fortune a day, forever, from meHappy birthday

What I’d do differently

I’d pull a reference photo for the pottery before shaping anything. I took the cookie that looked most like a cookie and called it artisanal. It looked like a dumpling, and that became the running joke of the project.

Outcome

Day-30 retention: 100%. He opens it out of love, or fear.