This Design Needs Love is a series of low-fidelity UX design explorations that brings attention to opportunities or problems in the world of design and attempts to better realize them. If it’s bad, let’s give it some love and make it better. If it’s a cool idea, let’s give it some love for how cool it is.
What if we gave a person ultimate control of their own web experience? What if we removed the concept of user personas or archetypes because we created a system to solve any UX need? By integrating an AI agent into a website and providing it enough resources, we could upend web design as we know it.
Our cars tell us when something’s wrong. Our software can track progress, show errors, and offer solutions. Why not apply this to the human condition? What if we built a check engine light for mental health, allowing someone to view their mental state and trends in real time and take action to alleviate issues?
There’s no single application for providing comprehensive routing options to users, let alone options based on what they really need. What if we built a transit app around user desires and goals, not just prices or products? What if we gave the user ultimate power for determining how they get from point A to B?