Lora AI
Your AI companion for meaningful conversations, everyday moments, and personal connection. A friend, a partner, or a mentor on your terms.
Project overview
My role:
Product Designer
Responsibilities:
User Flow: Designing intuitive user flows that minimize cognitive load, simplify navigation, and create a seamless user experience.
Visual Design: Creating a clean, premium visual identity with light and dark modes, while maintaining familiar chat interface conventions.
Motion Design: Designing fluid animations and engaging micro-interactions, including an interactive AI avatar that responds dynamically to the companion's states.
Onboarding
A simple, discreet, and privacy-first onboarding experience designed to minimize friction and cognitive load. Users can get started quickly without sharing unnecessary personal information, creating a comfortable and welcoming first interaction.
Design challenge
Identifying user needs and designing an AI companion experience that puts privacy and emotional safety first.
Personalization
Personalization begins with choosing a preferred companion role Friend, Partner or Mentor. This simple choice helps tailor the AI experience to each user's individual needs and expectations.
Bot states
The interactive AI avatar dynamically responds to the companion's states Idle, Typing, Speaking, Thinking, Listening, and Error. Smooth, seamless transitions between animations provide intuitive visual feedback, making interactions feel more natural, engaging and responsive.
Chat experience
The chat interface adapts to the user's journey, offering two distinct experiences. The first-time chat encourages users to start a conversation through a welcoming, intuitive interface, while returning users can seamlessly continue previous conversations with their chat history preserved.
Settings page
The Settings page provides easy access to advanced companion customization and account management. Users can personalize their experience, view their current subscription plan and seamlessly upgrade from the Free tier to unlock additional features.
Explore the animated design concept of Lora AI and experience its key interactions in motion. Due to their complexity, the interactive avatar animations were created separately using Rive.
A cohesive design system was created to ensure visual consistency across light and dark modes. Designed with an iOS-first approach, it follows Apple's design principles to deliver a clean, intuitive and premium user experience.
