Voice to Text for Product Designers
Your best design thinking happens when you're in flow, not when you're typing out spec documents. Blurt lets you capture design rationale, write feedback, and document decisions while your mind stays focused on the work. Hold a button, explain your thinking out loud, release. Text appears wherever your cursor is — in Figma comments, Notion docs, Slack threads, anywhere. Your ideas get documented before they disappear.
The Typing Problem
Documenting design decisions feels like a second job
You just spent two hours exploring three different navigation patterns. You know exactly why you chose this approach, but now you have to write it all down for the eng team. The context is fresh in your mind, but typing it out feels like reliving the whole exploration. So you write a two-sentence summary and hope nobody asks questions.
Stakeholder feedback requests pile up unanswered
Product wants your thoughts on the new feature proposal. Marketing needs feedback on the landing page copy. Your design lead asked for your critique on the junior's work. Each response would take 5 minutes to type, but you're deep in a design problem. By the time you surface, you've forgotten what you wanted to say.
Design critiques take forever to write out
You're reviewing a teammate's work and you have clear feedback. You could explain it out loud in 30 seconds — the hierarchy feels off, the spacing needs work, the button placement breaks the scanning pattern. But typing all that with specific, actionable suggestions? That's 10 minutes of switching from visual mode to writing mode.
Specs get written after the context has faded
The design is done, but now comes the handoff documentation. You need to explain interaction states, edge cases, responsive behavior. You knew all this when you designed it, but that was three days ago. Now you're reconstructing decisions from memory, and half the details are gone.
Your wrists ache from Figma and typing all day
Between precise mouse movements in Figma and typing documentation, your hands never rest. You've tried the ergonomic mouse, the standing desk, the wrist exercises. But eight hours of detailed UI work plus another two hours of typing specs means your wrists are screaming by Wednesday. You're a designer, not a typist — why does typing take up so much of your day?
How It Works
Blurt works in every app designers use — Figma, Notion, Slack, Linear, Google Docs. Anywhere you can put a cursor.
Hold your hotkey
Press your chosen shortcut. A small indicator shows Blurt is listening.
Talk naturally
Explain your design thinking, give feedback, or describe the spec. Blurt handles punctuation.
Release and done
Text appears at your cursor. No copying, no pasting, no extra steps.
Real Scenarios
Adding Figma comments during design review
You're reviewing the checkout flow and spot an issue with the error state. Click to add a comment, hold your hotkey, say 'The error message appears too far from the input field. Users might not connect them. Move it directly below the field and use the error-red color token for consistency.' Comment posted in 5 seconds instead of a minute of typing. Keep reviewing.
Writing design rationale in Notion specs
The spec needs a section explaining why you chose tabs over a sidebar. Hold the button and talk through your reasoning: 'Tabs work better here because the content categories are mutually exclusive and users typically focus on one section at a time. A sidebar would suggest parallel content which doesn't match the mental model.' Two paragraphs done while your reasoning is still fresh.
Quick Slack updates during deep design work
Your PM asks for a status update while you're deep in interaction design. Hold, say 'Still working through the empty state variations. Should have three options ready for review by 3pm. The main challenge is balancing illustration detail with load performance.', release. Back to designing in 5 seconds. Flow preserved.
Documenting interaction states for handoff
Engineers need to know every hover, focus, and disabled state. Instead of typing out a matrix, hold the button and describe: 'The primary button has four states. Default uses brand-blue-500. Hover darkens to brand-blue-600. Active adds a 2px inset shadow. Disabled drops to 40 percent opacity and removes the pointer cursor.' Spec written at the speed of thought.
Giving critique in design reviews
A teammate presents their work and you have feedback. Instead of typing notes during the presentation, hold your button after and say: 'I love the visual direction. Two thoughts — the card shadows feel heavier than our system. Try elevation-2 instead of elevation-4. Also, the icon placement in the header breaks our 8px grid. Shift it down 4 pixels.' Thoughtful feedback delivered in 15 seconds.
Responding to stakeholder feedback requests
Marketing sent a doc asking for design input on the new campaign page. You have opinions, but typing them means losing your afternoon. Hold the button and talk: 'The hero works but the CTA gets lost against the background image. Either add a semi-transparent overlay behind the button or move it below the fold onto the white section.' Response done, back to your actual work.
Writing user research notes during observation
You're watching a usability test recording and need to capture observations without looking away. Hold your hotkey and narrate: 'User hesitated at the pricing toggle. Scrolled up and down twice before clicking. Seems confused about what annually means versus monthly. Consider adding a tooltip or showing the savings calculation.' Notes captured without breaking observation focus.
Why designers choose Blurt over built-in dictation
| Blurt | macOS Dictation | |
|---|---|---|
| Activation | Single hotkey, instant start | Click microphone icon or 'Hey Siri' |
| Speed | Text appears in under 500ms | 2-3 second delay before transcription |
| Reliability | Consistent accuracy across sessions | Often fails silently or mishears |
| Design vocabulary | Handles terms like 'kerning', 'affordance', 'z-index' | Struggles with design terminology |
| In-flow usage | Works without breaking visual focus | Requires looking at system UI |
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