INDUSTRY:
Productivity Tech / AI Workspace
CLIENT:
NEXUS AI
YEAR:
2026
EXPERIENCE:
UX Research · Product Strategy · UX/UI Design · Design System · Prototyping · UX Writing · Conversational UI
NEXUS AI Your Intelligent Workspace Companion
about.
Nexus AI is a desktop productivity assistant designed to help professionals (25–40) unify their digital workspace through conversational AI. Instead of jumping between Gmail, Slack, Drive, Notion, and Calendar — users simply ask Nexus. It searches, drafts, schedules, and summarizes everything, across all connected apps, in one intelligent desktop interface.
challenge.
The main challenge was designing a desktop AI assistant that feels genuinely helpful without being overwhelming, intrusive, or impersonal — and that earns user trust enough to touch their emails, files, and calendars.
Key problems identified:
Context switching between 10+ apps wastes 40% of productive time daily
Information overload 87% of professionals spend 2+ hours/day just searching for things
Generic AI tools (like ChatGPT) have no integrations and no persistent memory
Enterprise alternatives (Copilot) are expensive, complex, and locked to one ecosystem
Trust barriers users fear giving an AI access to their professional data
Poor voice UX existing desktop assistants feel robotic, not conversational
results.
Designed a unified AI chat interface that works across Gmail, Drive, Calendar, Slack, and Notion
Built a smart dashboard with time-based greetings, proactive AI suggestions, and glanceable widgets
Created a voice UI system with animated waveform, live transcription, and transparent confirmation states
Developed a complete design system 50+ components, 8px grid, Blue/Purple brand palette, WCAG AAA
Shipped 35+ high-fidelity desktop screens
Designed natural-language email drafting with tone adjustment, inline editing, and one-click send
Achieved a System Usability Scale score of 87/100 (Grade A) in prototype testing
