Yash Dhuper
From meetings and lectures to spontaneous ideas, VoiceToNotes transcribes your speech in real-time, organizes it neatly, all in one place.
Client:
Web3Task
My Role:
Product Designer
Year:
2025
Service Provided:
Product Design, Mobile Design, Web App Design, Landing Page Design
The Problem
Voice to Notes launched with fewer than 1,000 total downloads and a user flow that was actively pushing people away. New users would open the app, get lost trying to figure out how to start a recording or find a past note, and abandon it within the first session. The core idea - fast, frictionless voice-to-text capture, was completely undermined by an interface that made "fast" and "frictionless" impossible. The app needed a full experience redesign from the ground up, not a visual refresh.
The product had a good idea buried under a bad experience. People weren't leaving because they didn't need the app, they were leaving because they couldn't use it.
The Approach
The redesign started with understanding who was actually trying to use this app and why they were bouncing. Research pointed to two core user groups:
Business people who take frequent meetings and need to capture and revisit notes quickly.
Writers who use voice capture to get ideas down before they lose them
From there, the process followed a full end-to-end design cycle over 1.5–2 months:
User research and pain-point mapping
Wireframing
Low-fidelity design
High-fidelity design
Final design polish
A/B testing to validate flow changes before shipping
The surfaces were built in a deliberate sequence - mobile app first, then the web app, then the landing page, and finally the widgets and watch app developed simultaneously, so that the core mobile experience was locked in before extending the system outward.
The Solution
The final design centered on a small number of high-leverage decisions rather than a feature dump:
Monochrome color palette - chosen specifically to keep the interface calm and serene instead of visually overwhelming a user who's mid-meeting or mid-thought
Quick action buttons on the home screen - so a user could start recording, review a summary, or jump into a note in one tap, instead of navigating through several screens to do something simple
AI-powered note summarization - raw voice transcripts get automatically distilled into clean, scannable, main-pointed summaries, so users don't have to re-read a wall of transcribed rambling to find what mattered
A consistent design language carried across mobile, web, landing page, widgets, and watch, so the experience felt like one product regardless of surface
The Result
After roughly six to eight weeks of design work, the redesigned app rolled out and the impact was dramatic. Downloads grew from under 1,000 total to over 500,000 on the App Store alone, with 100,000+ additional downloads on Play Store. Retention improved noticeably, users who previously churned out during onboarding were sticking around, and the note-taking process itself became measurably easier thanks to the quick-action home screen and AI summarization.
Going from under 1K downloads to 600K+ combined wasn't just a UI win, it was proof that the original idea was strong all along, it just needed an experience that got out of its own way.
