Voice to Text for UX Designers
Your brain is in visual mode, sketching flows and iterating on layouts. But design work requires constant documentation — rationale, research notes, feedback, specs. Blurt lets you capture your thinking without switching contexts. Hold a button, say what you're thinking, release. Text appears wherever your cursor is — Figma comments, Notion docs, Slack threads, anywhere. Your hands stay on your mouse. Your mind stays in design mode.
The Typing Problem
Writing design rationale while your thinking is fresh
You just made a key design decision — moved the CTA, changed the flow, simplified a screen. You know exactly why, right now. But typing it out means stopping your design momentum. By the time you finish documenting, you've lost the thread of what you were iterating on. So you skip the rationale. Two weeks later, a stakeholder asks why and you can't remember.
Capturing user research insights during sessions
You're watching a user struggle with a flow. Your brain is firing with observations and insights. But you're also facilitating, watching for reactions, thinking about follow-up questions. Typing notes pulls your attention away from the participant. You miss a crucial facial expression or hesitation. The most valuable insights slip away because you were typing the previous one.
Adding comments in Figma without disrupting your flow
You need to leave feedback on a teammate's design, or document your own decisions for handoff. Each comment requires: click, type, think about wording, type more. Multiply by thirty comments across a complex file. An hour of your day gone to typing things you could have said out loud in ten minutes. Your mouse hand is exhausted. Your design work sits unfinished.
Writing design specs and documentation nobody wants to write
Engineering needs detailed specs. Product wants the design doc updated. The component library needs usage guidelines. You know all of this in your head — you could explain it perfectly in a five-minute conversation. But writing it takes an hour you don't have before the sprint starts. The documentation stays incomplete, and engineers interpret your designs differently than you intended.
Your wrists hurt from switching between mouse and keyboard
Design work means constant mouse work — dragging, aligning, clicking layers. Then you switch to typing comments, then back to mouse, then keyboard again. This ergonomic whiplash adds up. Your wrists ache by Wednesday. You've tried every ergonomic setup, but the fundamental problem remains: design tools need your hands in two places at once.
How It Works
Blurt works in every tool UX designers use — Figma, Sketch, Miro, Notion, Slack, Google Docs. Anywhere you can put a cursor.
Hold your hotkey
Press your chosen shortcut. A small indicator shows Blurt is listening.
Talk naturally
Say your design rationale, feedback, or documentation. Blurt handles punctuation.
Release and done
Text appears at your cursor. No copying, no pasting, no extra steps.
Real Scenarios
Documenting design decisions in real-time
You just moved a key interaction from the sidebar to a modal. Hold your hotkey and say 'Changed to modal because user testing showed 40% of users missed the sidebar action. Modal forces acknowledgment and tested better with older demographics.' Your rationale is captured in 6 seconds while the reasoning is still sharp. Keep designing. Future-you and your stakeholders will thank you.
Taking notes during user research sessions
A participant just said something revealing about their mental model. Hold the button, say 'User expected settings to be under profile, not the gear icon. Third participant to mention this. Consider relocating or adding redundant path.' Back to observing in 4 seconds. Your attention stays on the user while insights get captured verbatim.
Leaving Figma comments without dropping your mouse
You're reviewing a teammate's flow and spot an issue. Click the comment tool, click the spot, then hold your hotkey: 'This empty state needs more guidance. Users won't know what action to take. Consider adding an illustration and primary CTA.' Comment posted without typing a word. Your mouse hand never moved to the keyboard.
Writing component documentation for handoff
Engineering needs specs for your new button component. Hold and speak: 'Primary button uses 16px padding horizontal, 12px vertical. Corner radius 8px. Disabled state reduces opacity to 50% and removes hover effect. See color tokens in the shared library.' Documentation written in 15 seconds instead of 3 minutes of typing and double-checking.
Responding to design feedback in Slack
A PM questions why you removed a feature from the flow. You could type a defense, but you're mid-iteration. Hold button, explain: 'Removed it based on analytics showing only 3% usage. It added complexity to the primary flow. Happy to discuss in our sync if you have concerns about specific use cases.' Thoughtful reply sent in 8 seconds. Back to designing.
Capturing observations during competitive analysis
You're clicking through a competitor's app, noticing patterns. Hold and narrate: 'Competitor uses progressive disclosure well here. Settings grouped by frequency of use, not category. Consider similar approach for our settings redesign.' Your observations are captured as you browse, not reconstructed from memory later.
Updating design docs before stakeholder meetings
You have five minutes before presenting and the design doc needs updating. Hold and talk through the changes: 'Updated flow removes step three based on engineering feasibility feedback. New approach uses existing API endpoint, reducing scope by two weeks.' Doc updated with context. You walk into the meeting prepared.
Why UX designers choose Blurt over built-in dictation
| Blurt | macOS Dictation | |
|---|---|---|
| Activation | Single hotkey, instant start | Click microphone icon or double-tap key |
| Speed | Text appears in under 500ms | 2-3 second delay before transcription |
| Reliability | Consistent accuracy across sessions | Often fails silently or mishears |
| Design terminology | Handles words like 'affordance' and 'heuristic' well | Struggles with UX-specific vocabulary |
| Figma compatibility | Works in all text fields including comments | Inconsistent behavior in design tools |
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