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As we wrap Project Opus, we’re taking a moment to reflect on the journey that brought us here. Over the past 10 weeks, we’ve tackled the challenge of creating an AI-powered political transparency tool. The project has been equal parts ambitious, rewarding, and collaborative.
In the early weeks, we dove deep into understanding the challenges people face when trying to navigate clear, unbiased information and when AI is at play. We explored potential markets a tool could serve such as social media, health, politics, shopping and virtual communication. Ultimately, we decided to pursue the political use case as it’s a space that regularly experiences bias, misinformation, and echo chambers. Those insights shaped the two initial concepts we developed: one offered a more guided, hands-on experience, while the other took a passive, low-effort approach.
User feedback quickly made it clear that both approaches had value, and the real opportunity was in combining their strengths. So, that’s exactly what we did! Through thoughtful iteration and refinement, we built a unified solution designed to empower users with accurate, relevant political insights…on users’ individual terms.
Features like the Daily Snapshot, Personal Newscast, Content Analysis, and Practice Ballot came to life through multiple design sprints, user tests, and fine-tuning. In the end, hearing participants describe the tool as something they’d genuinely use was the ultimate validation of our work over the last 10 weeks.
Now, we’re thrilled to share the final product with you. This demo video brings everything together and showcases how Poli is designed to make political engagement easier, more transparent, and more actionable.
Thank you for following along with us on this journey!
To see how we got here over the last 10 weeks, check out the behind the scenes summaries and videos.
- Week 1 Writeup & Recap Video
- Week 2 Writeup & Recap Video
- Week 3 Writeup & Recap Video
- Week 4 Writeup & Recap Video
- Week 5 Writeup & Recap Video
- Week 6 Writeup & Recap Video
- Week 7 Writeup & Recap Video
- Week 8 Writeup & Recap Video
- Week 9 Writeup
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Project Opus: Week 9
Nov 01, 2024
There's only 1 week left of Project Opus, and while the team is off creating the final prototype and product demo video, we're reflecting on how the last 9 weeks went. Check out what the team had to say about the project's highs and lows.
Project Opus: Week 8
Oct 25, 2024
This we met as a whole team twice, once for the user research report readout and again for the final internal design review. It was a big week as we are just 2 weeks away from the project deadline! Check out how the IDIs are impacting the design and what the team had to say.
Project Opus: Week 7
Oct 18, 2024
Week 7 of Project Opus brought our final round of user research before we head into the final design stretch. Check out all the collaboration and progress made across test prep, recruiting participants, design updates, prototype creation, and running 7 in-depth interview sessions with users!
Project Opus: Week 6
Oct 11, 2024
Week 6 was a busy one that saw more parallel work between our design and research teams! A research report was finalized, we've identified the concept to move forward with, and there are a handful of design changes to make. Check out all that happened this week!