Debrieviate -
The Vision Dictionary
Reimagining Speect-to-Text
Transcripts as Interactive
Experiences
1. Introduction:
Beyond Complex Texts
In today’s digital world, transcripts turn speech into plain text, but they often feel dense, linear, and difficult to use. Debrieviate reimagines transcripts on VisionOS as interactive, visual experiences—breaking them into tappable words and digestible segments. Through a blend of coding and UX design, the project empowers users to actively navigate, decode jargon, and engage with transcripts rather than passively read them.
This case study seeks to address the pressing question:
How might we make transcripts more approachable by helping users quickly understand jargon, abbreviations, and complex terms in context?
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2. Research Summary:
Behind The Problem
To understand the challenges of using transcripts, we conducted quick interviews with students and professionals who frequently work with recorded content. We also reviewed common transcript platforms.
Persona: The Target Users
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Research: Affinity Diagramming
We used affinity diagramming to organize qualitative data from quick interviews, observation of transcript usage, and a scan of existing platforms. Sticky-note style clustering helped us surface patterns in how people experience transcripts.
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Research: Current-state User Journey Mapping
From our personas and affinity diagramming of user pain points, we identified that the biggest struggles occur when people encounter jargon during live conversations. This led us to map a 5-stage current state user journey, showing how listeners prepare, follow along, hit jargon, lose flow, and ultimately struggle to re-engage.
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Research: Affinity Diagramming
We used affinity diagramming to organize qualitative data from quick interviews, observation of transcript usage, and a scan of existing platforms. Sticky-note style clustering helped us surface patterns in how people experience transcripts.
Research: Current-state User Journey Mapping
From our personas and affinity diagramming of user pain points, we identified that the biggest struggles occur when people encounter jargon during live conversations. This led us to map a 5-stage current state user journey, showing how listeners prepare, follow along, hit jargon, lose flow, and ultimately struggle to re-engage.
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3. Ideation:
From Pain Points to Possibilities
From Pain Points to Possibilities
Having mapped the frustrations of the current experience, we envisioned a future state journey that reimagines how users could stay in flow by decoding jargon seamlessly in real time.
To bring this envisioned experience to life, we translated the journey into low-fidelity sketches that explored how transcripts and definition cards could coexist in a simple, intuitive interface.
Ideation: Low Fidelity Sketches
Ideation: Wireframes
Wireframes illustrating the core interaction: users view a live transcript (left), tap on jargon terms highlighted in blue, and instantly see contextual definitions populate in the right-hand panel. This sequence demonstrates how Debrieviate keeps users in flow by reducing the need to leave the conversation for external lookups.
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High Fidelity Prototype
Using Swift in XCode, I’ve coded a runnable visionOS program that emulates my design. Please see the demo video below.