Productivity
UX Research
Product Design
2024
Connecting scattered workspaces into a productive, perceptive and private AI browser.
Role
Led research, prototyping and testing and roadmap for the browser concept and core features.
Impact
Pressure tested concepts with eight distinct features, planned for shipping across a four-quarter roadmap.
Problem
Freelancers lose time and focus switching between scattered apps, accounts, files, and notifications, with little control over their data.
Solution
Stitching apps, files, chats, and ideas into AI-native spaces that augments knowledge and productivity.
1. Issues
Freelancers lose time and focus across scattered files, accounts, and tools actually built for enterprises.
Too many platforms
An average freelancer uses 35+ cloud-based platforms in a day, managing too many touchpoints.
Too much data
60% freelancers feel difficulty keeping track of information flowing through different apps and notifications.
Too many shuffles
Freelancers shuffle between multiple projects and devices in a day, dispersing ideas in notes, photos, or bookmarks.
Too much noise
Freelancers receive about 2x the notifications than the average person, with advertisements accounting for most of it.
9.5
minutes lost regaining product flow after context switching.
2. Insights
The value of work accelerates when projects, people, and platforms connect in a personalized digital environment.
Social media inspires but exhausts
Freelancers use it to learn and find ideas but are fatigued by irrelevant ads and scrolling. They want an authentic community they can trust.
Tools, tabs, and apps keep changing
Freelancers manage too many apps, plugins, and channels. They want fast, consistent, secure access across devices and accounts.
Files and ideas are scattered
Files get blocked by inefficient syncing, and ideas are hard to recall or reuse. They want one flexible place to save, search, and build on work.
Privacy feels out of their control
Freelancers struggle with data privacy and security. They want more control over their data and faster, more transparent search.
3. Ideas
AI-native personal browser that organizes projects, people, files, and ideas into one digital office.
AI-enabled browsing
An intelligent browser personalizes the internet and removes the need to add another tool to the mix.
Searchable knowledge base
Connect each project with calendars, platforms, chats, and files that can be searched and retrieved globally.
Subjective
Patient feels fatigued and demotivated with multiple treatments, trials and tests. He wants to find something that actually helps reduce the physocological burden.
Objective
Patient diagnosed with Squamous Cell Carcinoma. Exhibits fatigue, confusion and frustration. There have been more chest pains off late.
Treatment
Analyzing…
Plan
Confirming…
Create note
Canvas-based workspace
Group related sites, apps, and files into a shareable canvas for deep work, or switch them to browser view.
Agentic read and respond
Run agents that query your data, get answers to questions, or make changes to your files, plans and ideas.
Daily and weekly highlights
Stay in the loop with important updates and alerts as short highlights, with related notifications grouped together.
Smart collections and blends
Save ideas from anywhere from the internet in one place, and blend them into new ones for yourself or a team.
Visualize goals
Ask about resuscitation
Discuss travelling post surgery
Confirm new medication regime
Share trusted proxy details
Clarify doubts on forms
Explore hospice
Authentic content discovery
Discover new content for apps, platforms, or products from real people like you, with summaries and reviews to decide better.
