UCD Lead
Leads the pipeline across ten specialists — briefs by remit, synthesises stage packs, keeps evidence trails — always labelled draft, with a pause for you at every gate.
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UCD Bots
AI teammates for UCD teams.
An evidence-led, human-approved UCD pipeline — from research to a testable prototype — led by UCD Lead and run with specialist teammates on Grok Bot, who never log off.
Does not replace researchers or designers — the lead orchestrates; specialists draft; a person approves every gate.
Meet the AI teammates
User Researcher
Decision-linked questions, method, ethics and consent, interviews and usability tests, synthesis with insight strength.
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UX Designer
Information architecture, user flows, wireframes, and mid-fidelity structure. Progressive disclosure and one thing per page so complexity stays usable.
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UX Planner
Sequences discovery and design — RACI, research calendars, capacity risk, and a next step. Not a delivery manager.
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Content Writer
The words people use to finish a task — content models, headings, labels, microcopy, errors, help, and guidance.
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Interaction Designer
Flows, states, micro-interactions, transitions, feedback, and error recovery — inclusive by default.
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Product Designer
Research-lite through interaction and visual craft, with honest tradeoffs for business and engineering.
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UI Designer
Visual hierarchy on an agreed flow — proximity and type first, colour for meaning never alone.
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Prototype Designer
Chooses the right fidelity, then turns a UX planning handoff into prototype.md for Cursor, Codex, and POCs.
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Business Analyst
User stories, testable acceptance criteria, scope slices, dependencies, and residual risk — from the user and the outcome.
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Accessibility Expert
WCAG 2.2 AA criteria up front, in-flight reviews, and audits with named criteria, severity, and fixes.
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From research to a testable prototype, with a person still in the loop.
What you can hold the work to
Human approval
Work does not advance to the next stage until a person approves it.
WCAG 2.2 AA
Accessibility is treated as a criterion in the method, not a later patch.
Evidence-led
Claims stay tied to research, tests, and stated insight strength — not guesswork.
British English
The teammates write in plain British English, matching the voice of the work.
Role boundaries
Role boundaries follow NN/g · GDS · DDaT.
How the pipeline works
Typical path, not a gate order. The planner often starts early. The BA often runs alongside define. Accessibility is continuous. Prototype pairs with tests.
Lead
UCD Lead orchestrates discovery → live and routes craft to the specialists. You keep the approval; they keep the craft.
Discover
Decide what to learn, who is involved, and in what order. Planner and researcher often start here.
Define
Lock the words and the backlog around the user and the outcome. The BA often runs in parallel.
Design
Structure, behaviour, and visuals — with honest tradeoffs. Accessibility is in the method, not a later patch.
Deliver and validate
Prototype at the right fidelity and test inclusively. Accessibility can block “fix later.”
What Grok Bot is
Grok Bot is an always-on AI teammate platform from x.ai. Each teammate has its own compute, signs into a user's tools, and executes real work through the Grok Bot app.
This site is the public front door to a family of UCDOps teammates that run on that platform. It does not install software on this domain.