Enhancing UX Design with AI — Balancing Innovation with Human Insight

Overview

  • Goal

    Demonstrate how AI can accelerate and improve the UX design process while maintaining user-centric and inclusive outcomes.

  • Role

    Product Designer

  • Tools

    AI tools - Figmamake, ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Stitch, Deepseek, Uizard

  • Skills Used

    Creating inclusive persona creation, enhancing user testing, design iteration, quick prototyping, generating layouts, creating visual concepts, human-in-the-loop decision-making

Context & Challenge

The project involved designing an AI-powered fitness app (hypothetical concept) that seamlessly integrates personalized workout planning, nutrition tracking, and community engagement focused on revolutionizing personalized health and fitness with AI-assisted workflows to accelerate research, ideation, prototyping, and workflow design while demonstrating measurable efficiency gains, improve speed, inclusivity, and usability. The challenge was to leverage AI for ideation and efficiency without losing the nuance of human judgment in design decisions.

Process

AI-Assisted Research & Persona Development

  • Created brand’s logos and moodboard from OpenAI.

  • Used ChatGPT to analyze survey data and generate initial persona drafts.

  • Incorporated inclusive persona guidelines by:

    • Ensuring diversity in demographics, abilities, and backgrounds.

    • Verifying against real user data to remove AI bias.

  • Example Output:

    • AI-generated draft persona → Human refinement → Final validated persona set.

Prompts given

  1. Make 2 different logos for fitness app "fitfuel" using yellow, black and white shades with showing women calm and energetic

  2. Create a mood board for fitness app "fitfuel". Tone of brand- energetic, healthy life. Use yellow, white and black.

  3. Initial prompt- Create 2 different user personas for a fitness app called "Fitfuel" for age group of 20-50 years, for busy professionals and people who want to improve their physical and mental wellbeing not just weight loss. Include a picture of that person too.

Updated prompt- Now create user personas for someone non-western background and who wants to focus on getting fit with similar group of people, who likes to try new exercise. Include accessibility friendly example, working moms who wants to stay fit include realistic example like managing stress