Designed a 0-1 AI Product Development Tool to Improve Transparency, Reliability, & Collaboration within the Product Development Workflow
Team
5 UX Designers
1 Design Lead
3 Engineers
1 Founder
Timelines
3 months
Jun 2024 - Aug 2024
Outcome
Shipped the MVP with key features in place, enhancing the experience of 200+ active users.
Where It All Started: The Context Behind Our Solution
Tempo Labs is an AI-powered product development platform that combines a visual editor with a React IDE, bridging design and code to streamline collaboration between startup founders, designers, and engineers.
As UX designers, we aim to improve transparency, reliability, and collaboration within the product development workflow by refining how users brainstorm, plan, execute, and track product changes with AI. In doing so, our goal is to empower startup founders in taking on the role of a design manager, enabling them to rapidly transform ideas into MVPs without getting stuck in cycles of rework and indecision. Getting here wasn’t a straight shot—we pivoted, adapted, and refined until the pieces finally clicked!
PROBLEM
Users: Early-stage startup founders often experience a disorganized and inefficient product development process, where progress feels unpredictable and difficult to manage.
Staring at a blank canvas, startup founders often struggle with uncertainty—where to begin, what features to prioritize, and how to bring their vision to life. Without a clear direction from concept to execution, they fall into an endless cycle of reworking and fine-tuning without making tangible progress. This lack of structure and efficiency drains time and focus, making it harder to ship products on time to stay competitive and drive innovation.
Business: A large percentage of users disengage after their initial use, making it difficult to establish a loyal and active user base.
Without sustained engagement, the startup struggles to scale efficiently, face stagnating growth, and become increasingly vulnerable to failure.
SOLUTION
An AI-aided product management dashboard that brings structure to product development, helping founders plan, track, collaborate, iterate, and execute with greater clarity and efficiency.
AI-Powered PRD Generation
Users can enter high-level ideas, and AI provides intelligent suggestions to refine them.
AI instantly produces both a primary PRD and feature-specific PRDs, updating live as the process unfolds.
Users can manually edit PRDs in a familiar, text-based interface—just like working in Notion or Word.
Project Dashboard for PRD Management
A structured project dashboard stores the primary PRD and all feature-specific PRDs in one place for easy access.
Users can manually add, edit, or remove PRDs as their project evolves, ensuring everything stays up to date.
AI Task Breakdown from Feature-Specific PRD
AI breaks down complex feature-specific PRDs into clear, actionable tasks.
Approve with a click, and tasks are instantly organized into the team’s sprint board, ready for execution.
Collaborative Sprint Board with AI Task Execution
Tasks are displayed as interactive tickets on the sprint board, allowing users to assign collaborators, set priorities, and generate subtasks.
AI can directly execute tickets within the Tempo Editor, and updates their status on the sprint board in real time.
