Smart Highlights AI

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Company

Sharly

Role

UI/UX Designer

Industry

Artificial Intelligence

Date

2024

Introduction

Smart Highlights AI creates more relevant and personalized summaries, reinforcing the platform’s commitment to intuitive and user-centric innovation.

About Business

Sharly is an AI-powered document summarization platform designed to streamline information processing. My role was to design and implement Smart Highlights AI, a new feature that enhanced user control over the summarization process.

This feature enables users to preview documents, highlight or annotate specific keywords, and guide the AI for more accurate and tailored summaries.

Problem

Users often needed more control over how AI summarized their documents. Feedback revealed that summarizing entire documents sometimes missed critical context, and users wanted the ability to direct the AI’s focus to specific sections or keywords for greater relevance.

Objectives

  1. Introduce Smart Highlights AI, a feature enabling users to preview documents in a popup.

  2. Allow users to highlight or annotate specific keywords in the document.

  3. Enable AI to generate tailored summaries based on user-specified keywords, improving relevance and accuracy.

Research

I conducted a survey with a sample size of 6 participants to understand the pain points and needs of the users when it comes to note-taking during lecture.

A few findings include:

  1. 6 out of 6 were struggling to balance listening and note-taking.

  2. 5 out of 6 couldn't keep up with the pace of the lecture.

  3. 4 out of 6 had a hard time to organise their notes clearly.

Define

Some of the key challenges were identified:

Information Overload

Difficulty in processing and retaining large amounts of information.

Identifying Key Points

Difficulty in discerning the most crucial information from a text or lecture.

Summarisation Skills

Lack of proficiency in summarising information while maintaining its essence.

Key Feature #1

Highlight Feature

Users have the ability to annotate specific texts manually to add their own notes and comments.

Key Feature #2

Annotation Feature

Users can highlight multiple texts to be summarised from the article uploaded to the platform.

Key Feature #3

AI-generated Summaries

The summaries are generated based on the highlighted specific texts that are concise and informative.

Results

  • Increased user satisfaction by an estimated 30%, based on early adoption feedback.

  • Boosted engagement, with users spending more time customizing summaries.

  • Reduced manual editing of summaries by 35%, improving efficiency for end users.