Meet UCD Bot

An AI teammate for User Centred Design. Give it transcripts, keep the craft, and come back when a stage needs your approval.

From the first interview to a working prototype — every artefact evidence-led, every step yours to approve.

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Message UCD Bot like a teammate

Give it interview transcripts, workshop notes, or conversation logs the way you would brief a researcher. It takes the work from discovery to prototype, keeps the evidence trail, and stops when your approval is needed.

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Stage-gated UCD

One agent. The full pipeline.

Generic AI gives you one clever answer to one prompt. UCD Bot runs the core UCD skills as connected steps — each building on verified evidence, each waiting for you before it moves on.

01 / Discover

Evidence-led from the first transcript.

Paste interview transcripts, workshop notes, or conversation logs. UCD Bot finds the pain points, themes, and insights — and traces every finding back to the words someone actually said.

Method
Research synthesis
Input
Interview transcripts, notes
Output
Themes → insights → evidence map

Approval · Human-reviewed at each step

Research synthesis board with clustered interview evidence

02 / Define

Problems before pixels.

Solution-free problem statements, an assumption map, How Might We opportunities, and testable hypotheses. The whole definition stack your stakeholders can align on before anyone opens a design tool.

Method
Problem framing
Input
Synthesised insights
Output
Problems, HMW, hypotheses

Approval · Human-reviewed at each step

Problem framing artefacts including How Might We notes

03 / Develop

Stories, journeys, and design specs — connected.

User stories with acceptance criteria, screen copy that holds its tone, end-to-end journeys, a UI plan, and a documented design system. Each artefact cites the one before it.

Method
Specification
Input
Validated problems and hypotheses
Output
Stories, journeys, UI plan, design system

Approval · Human-reviewed at each step

Specification artefacts connecting stories, journeys, and UI plans

04 / Deliver

A working product, not a slide deck.

Your most important flow, fully built and ready for user testing, demos, and show-and-tells. Everything else documented for what comes next.

Method
Prototype build
Input
UI plan and user stories
Output
Working prototype for testing

Approval · Human-reviewed at each step

Working prototype of a primary user flow

Works in the tools you already use

After OAuth, UCD Bot can read and write in Figma, Miro, Notion, Mural, and Google Drive. It analyses first, and only writes when you ask.

Show it the UCD way of working

Role playbooks load on demand — UCD expert, coach, research, UX, service design, content, accessibility, GOV.UK GDS, and more. Not all at once.

Keeps session notes, not secrets

Session memory stores project context, preferences, and decisions. It forgets credentials, OAuth secrets, and sensitive personal data.

Comes back for your approval

Human gates sit on every pipeline stage. It does the assembly so your team keeps the craft and the judgement.

Core UCD skills

Give UCD Bot a job

Pick a skill. Eleven artefacts, in order, with receipts — each one cites the one before it so nothing drifts from what people actually said.

01 · Research synthesis

Turn raw transcripts into findings you can defend.

Pain points, themes, and insights pulled from your raw material. Every finding linked to a real quote, so you can defend it in the room.

Research synthesis artefact
Problem definition artefact
Assumption mapping artefact
How Might We artefact
Hypotheses artefact
User stories artefact
UX content artefact
User journeys artefact
UI plan artefact
Design system artefact
Prototype artefact

Why not generic chat

Speed with a paper trail

UCD Bot matches the rigour of a full manual UCD pipeline — core skills connected end to end, evidence traced to source, human sign-off at each gate — at a fraction of the elapsed time.

Generic AI chatUCD BotManual UCD
Pipeline stages coveredSeveral promptsFull pipeline (connected)Full pipeline (disconnected)
Evidence traceabilityNoneEvery artefact → source quoteManual, if at all
Human approval gatesNoneAt every stageThroughout
OutputOne-shot guessWorking prototype + full artefact setIt takes as long as it takes

FAQ

Questions teams actually ask

What is UCD Bot?+

UCD Bot is an AI teammate for User Centred Design teams. It runs the full UCD process — research synthesis through to a working prototype — with every artefact traced back to real evidence and a human approval gate at each step.

Who is UCD Bot for?+

UCD Bot is for User Centred Design teams: user researchers, interaction designers, content designers, service designers, UX designers, and UCD leads — especially on greenfield discovery-to-prototype work.

How is UCD Bot different from generic AI chat?+

Generic AI gives one answer to one prompt. UCD Bot runs stage-gated steps, each building on verified evidence and waiting for your approval before moving on — so you get speed with a paper trail, not a single-shot guess.

Does UCD Bot replace designers?+

No. It keeps a human in the loop at every stage. You approve every artefact before the next one is built. It does the assembly so your team keeps the craft and the judgement.

What can I feed it?+

Interview transcripts, workshop notes, and conversation logs. It synthesises pain points, themes, and insights, and traces every finding back to the words someone actually said.

Where do I chat with UCD Bot?+

Open UCD Bot at /app. That is the eve web chat today — one agent, one surface.

Meet your first UCD Bot

An AI teammate you can trust with discovery-to-prototype work. Open the eve chat at /app and start from a transcript.

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