Lumina

An AI workspace concept that brings together conversations, research, projects, and knowledge into a single, cohesive experience. Designed to help individuals and teams stay organised while making AI feel like a natural part of everyday work.

Status: Concept
Type: AI workspace

Lumina is one of my concepts, an AI workspace. It isn’t a live product, so what follows is how the designs work rather than what they’ve achieved.

In the designs, the workspace comes together in one sidebar. At the top are search and three ways in: New chat, Projects and Library. Under them sit the projects you’ve pinned, then your recent chats, with yesterday’s under a heading of their own. Chats, projects and the library share one column, so there’s one place to look for any of it.

A new chat is quiet. A path at the top names the project it’s in. In the middle, under the mark, there’s a greeting, Hello Connor, and one question: What can I help you with today? Then comes the composer, and under it, a plain line that says AI can make mistakes and asks you to double-check.

A quiet start

A new chat pulled apart: the sidebar, the path, the greeting, and on top, the composer, where you ask.

That path matters. A chat can live inside a project, as this one does: its path reads Productivity / New chat, and Productivity stays lit in the sidebar. Once the conversation is under way, the chat has a name of its own, Casino promo design review, in the path and at the top of Recents. So the conversation shows which project it belongs to, and keeps that project’s context around it.

Inside a project

A new chat in its project, then named once it’s under way: Productivity / Casino promo design review.

The conversation in the designs is a design review. You share a promotional banner for a new original game and ask for honest feedback. Your messages sit on the right, the banner just above the one it came with, and the answers sit on the left as plain text.

The first answer starts with what works: the artwork draws attention, and the palette fits the theme. Then it names three changes: more breathing room for the headline, more contrast for the supporting copy and a more prominent call to action. Asked which parts to prioritise first, it sets them out as three areas, each a change with the reason for it, like more space between the headline and the body copy, to improve readability.

From a read to priorities

The work, the read on it and the follow-up: the read’s three changes, set out as three areas with their reasons.

The judgement stays yours. Every answer has three small buttons under it: copy, thumbs up and thumbs down. The reminder to double-check stays under the composer, too. That’s how I think about AI in design work: taste comes from the person, and AI is a fast tool in tasteful hands.

The identity is a star in a rounded square, edged in a gradient, beside the name in wide capitals that fade from white to grey. Inside the product, colour is kept to a few small places, like the mark and the project you’re in. Everything else is grey, and in a review, the work you’ve shared is the most colourful thing on screen.

The designs are below, with a walkthrough of the workspace.