Adee
Big Ideas. Small Bites.
AI summaries you can finish in 3–6 minutes, built to reduce doomscrolling and protect your attention.
Overview
Adee brings your information diet into one place. It reads your topics and preferred sources, finds quality across Substack, YouTube, and the web, then delivers concise, trustworthy summaries sized for short sessions with audio — built for focus, not for hooks.
Role:
Design Lead
Duration:
2 Months
Contribution:
Product Design
Brand Direction
Design system
Interaction design
UX writing
Prototyping
Platform:
iOS App
Problem
News is constant, loud, and fatiguing. Most feeds reward endless scrolling and hot takes, not clarity. People want to stay informed without giving up their time or attention to infinite timelines. Adee tackles this with short, trustworthy, audio-friendly summaries that fit into tiny pockets of the day.
Challenges &
Constraints
Design for focus in a space optimized for distraction.
Balance curation with user control and discovery.
Make audio first without sidelining readers.
Keep summaries faithful to source context.
A Solo build, so scope, velocity, and clarity matter.
Audience &
Use Case
Persona
Busy knowledge workers and curious generalists who value depth but only have a few minutes.
Primary scenario
Micro-sessions during commutes, breaks, and in-between moments where 3–6 minutes is the realistic time budget.
Success Criteria
Pre-launch: treat these as hypotheses until tested.
Time to value ≤ 60 s for 80% of first-time users
Completion rate ≥ 70% for one summary in the first session
Audio adoption: ≥ 1 in 3 sessions by the target segment uses audio
Back-and-forth between feed and article ≤ 1 per summary on average
Perceived calm/clarity: +2 on a 5-point Likert scale after tasks
Solution
Adee delivers a curated feed with time chips, clear topic labels, and an audio-first player. Opening a summary shifts the UI into a focused reading and listening mode that reduces on-screen noise. Section navigation encourages intentional exploration, search is tuned for topics and sources, and settings provide simple control of narration, text size, and autoplay. The system favors mindful discovery over accumulation.
Process
Foundations
Adee is a calm place to stay informed in short sessions.
The goal is finishing, not endless grazing.
Gather trusted sources in one feed
Single-task experience that protects focus
Bite-sized without losing depth
Key Decisions
Explicit bets to reduce choice load and speed learning.
3–6 minute AI summaries with audio parity
Personalization by topics, publications, creators
Time made visible on cards and screens
Forced focus: audio pauses when you leave the article or app
App Structure
Clear places for “now,” exploration, and control.
Curated
Discover
Search
Bookmarks
Settings
Validation
Planned studies before launch.
Usability test · First-time tasks to measure time to value and navigation clarity.
5-second tests · Card comprehension and time chip usefulness.
A/B prototype · Mini-player prominence vs distraction.
Qual interviews · Perceived calm, trust in summaries, audio satisfaction.
Learnings
Designing with “time” as a visible constraint improves prioritization and flow.
Audio and reading can share one surface if states stay predictable.
Small, consistent motion cues help users feel oriented without adding noise.
Next Steps
Run the planned usability and perception tests, then tune IA and player defaults.
Integrate real content pipelines and narration standards.
Ship an MVP to a small cohort, instrument the success criteria, iterate.