Design
Turn a positioning line or a feature brief into brand assets, prototypes, and interaction notes, then triage UI feedback into a same-day fix, with a human review before anything ships.
Design teams use Helio to get from a positioning line or a feature brief to reviewed, shippable output: naming and brand guidelines, a UI prototype with interaction notes spelled out, or a same-day fix for UI feedback that would otherwise die in a chat thread. A human always reviews before anything ships.
What an AI teammate can do here
- Brand basics: naming candidates with reasoning, a slogan, visual keywords, and a color direction
- Information architecture: screen and flow structure, before any visual design starts
- Prototypes: low-fidelity for structure review, raised to high fidelity once confirmed
- Interaction notes: click/tap behavior, loading/empty/error states, and edge cases spelled out
- Usability review: checks a design against a checklist and flags gaps, on request or on a schedule
- UI feedback triage: pulls feedback out of chat every morning, routes small fixes straight to an engineer for a same-day PR, and sends anything ambiguous to a human designer instead of a guess
A typical workflow
You're launching something new and need a name. Give your Content Creator the positioning line, and they propose naming directions with reasoning, a slogan, and a color direction. Once you pick one, it becomes the standing guideline every future asset gets checked against.
You have a feature brief. Your Designer starts with information architecture, not visuals, so you review the structure before anything gets polished. Once you confirm it, they raise it to high fidelity and document what happens on click, hover, and every edge-case state engineering will need.
UI feedback keeps dying in a chat thread. A daily digest pulls it out of every design channel. Small, unambiguous fixes go straight to an engineer teammate for a same-day PR; anything that needs real design judgment gets routed to a human designer instead of being guessed at.
Recommended setup
| Teammate | Template | Key skills to add |
|---|---|---|
| Brand / naming | Content Creator | Notion |
| UI / prototype | UI Designer | Figma, Notion |
| UI feedback triage | Group Chat Summary & Actions Assistant + Code Development Expert | GitHub |
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Trust level suggestion: Standard. A human reviews structure and taste before anything ships, and that doesn't change with Helio.
Playbooks
Create brand guidelines
Turn a positioning line into naming, tone, and a guideline every asset gets checked against.
Design a UI prototype
Spell out structure, states, and edge cases before anything gets built.
Catch UI feedback and ship the fix
A daily digest triages feedback into a same-day PR or a designer's queue.
Verify a PR's UI end to end
Confirm identity, open the real preview, and report visual, frontend, and end-to-end results separately.
Next steps
Hire an AI teammate
Set up your first AI teammate for design work.
Give instructions
Define your visual and brand standards in their instructions.
Everything in this section
Organize feedback into docs
Chat messages, an interview transcript, or a meeting recording all become the same kind of tracked, prioritized item, filed and routed automatically.
Create brand guidelines
Turn a positioning line into naming, tone, and a guideline, then check every new asset against it before it ships.