2025 Toolstack

As tools continue to evolve, I adopt and change with them while holding on to core ux foundations.

AI Tool	Otter.ai
What is it?	An AI collaborator function that converts speach to text in real time. It transcribes meetings, generates summaries, and extracts meaningful insights from the transcriptions.
Why is it relevant to the theme?	AI is quickly evolving to take over the role of notetaker in user research in some aspects. Time factors like length of interviews, recording rendering, upload/download, pressing play/pause, typing, repeat can quickly take more time then instantly having a transcript with potential insights available immediately upon ending an interview.
Why did it stand out to you?	I first became exposed to Otter.ai when I was in my grad program needing to transcribe and create text transcripts of user interviews. At the time, I landed at using Premiere Auto-transcribe as it was a service I was already paying for.
What does it say about AI and design?	Transcriptions are very much like reciepts to communicate what was purchased and when. IT gives a sense of a journey by recounting a specific time, activities and decisions to be made. Much like design, it's a cookie trail to generate insights to evolve conversations and drive behavioral changes.

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