Less time asking. More time living.

Problem

Aligned is building in the personal AI workspace category — a space where generic chat UIs fail because professionals need persistent context, trustworthy outputs, and workflows that fit how they already work.

The design challenge wasn't a landing page. It was making AI feel like a workspace you can rely on: clear ownership of suggestions, readable benchmark content, and surfaces that don't collapse under real data density.

Process

I mapped the core jobs: orient in the workspace, run an AI-assisted task, review output, and commit a result. Each step needed explicit trust UX — not bolted-on disclaimers, but structural clarity in the UI.

Benchmark content was treated as product evidence, not a side project. The structure mirrors how users evaluate AI tools: capability, limits, and comparison points.

I prototyped key flows in code so PM and Eng could react to real interaction — scroll, focus, loading, and error states included.

Outcome

Shipped production UI at joinaligned.ai — workspace home, document review, voice capture, and settings — plus consumer and enterprise landing pages and a launch film used in GTM.

Trust UX patterns (provenance, draft vs. committed, human-in-the-loop) are live in the product, not a slide deck — the team uses them as the baseline for new AI-assisted flows.

What I'd do differently

Instrument earlier usability sessions on the commit/review step — that's where trust breaks or holds, and we relied too much on internal review at first.