ℹ️ This project started in Jan 2024, an year before AI agents were a commonplace concept
Agent for Windows 11
Intent driven automation using AI
Introduction
AI agents are programs that can execute a task on user's behalf with complete or partial autonomy. In doing so, they are expected to come up with their own workflow and take non-critical decisions.
With recent development in AI, it is now technically possible to make an agent. However, the rules of governance, interaction and patterns were not defined in early 2024, when we began this project. We not only were building an agent but also decoding the complex layers of trust that still remains critical for its adoption.
Brief
The project aimed at creating AI agents for Windows 11 that can perform non-creative tasks on user’s behalf either through APIs or screen understanding.
Along with that, the agent needed to seamlessly integrate within user's tasks.
Scope
Scope for agentic automation was limited to non-creative tasks with singular outcome
My role
I was the only designer working on this project and was involved from very beginning till the final phase.
Crafted communication & interaction patterns for human-agent interaction that became basis for later development in this space.
Designed interface, created pitch videos, conducted user research and curated marketing assets.
Explorations
In early stages, I proposed modernizing the experience rather than just adding dark mode support.
Another approach was to increase the performance of copy engine itself to support multi-threaded copy. In that case, dialog size could be reduced for small to medium file size.
I also explored replacing the progress bar with games or custom animation to make the waiting less painful :)
While the team bought in to the proposal of modernizing UI, technical framework constraints and tight timelines forced us to limit to dark mode support with existing UI style.
