Project Overview

UX Compass

UX Compass is an AI-powered web app designed to support designers across the full product design lifecycle — from ideation to critique. Built using Lovable and enhanced with tools like Claude, ChatGPT, and Google AI Studio, the goal was to rapidly prototype a system that acts like a design lead in your pocket.

Launch Beta

Role
UX Researcher / UI Designer/ Vibe Coder

Platform
Responsive Web

Timeline
20 Weeks

The opportunity hiding in plain sight

Every product designer faces the same invisible bottleneck: the gap between intuition and evidence. We know something's wrong with a flow, but articulating why — with enough specificity to act on — takes time we rarely have.

UX Compass was born from a simple frustration: existing AI tools are great at generating UI, but poor at reasoning about UX. They ship pixels. They don't interrogate decisions.

"I didn't want another component generator. I wanted a thinking partner."

Hypothesis

The hypothesis: what if an AI assistant could apply established UX heuristics, map cognitive load, and surface friction — not as a checklist, but as a genuine collaborative analysis?

68%

of design reviews focus on aesthetics over usability

68%

of design reviews focus on aesthetics over usability

My Role

Senior Product Designer (End-to-End)

  • Product strategy & concept definition

  • UX architecture & interaction design

  • AI workflow orchestration

  • Rapid prototyping using Lovable

  • Iteration & validation using AI-assisted feedback loops

APPROACH

AI-Accelerated Discovery

Instead of traditional research cycles, I used AI to compress discovery timelines:

  • Synthesized UX frameworks using ChatGPT + Claude

  • Identified common friction points in design workflows

  • Mapped mental models of junior vs senior designers