01 — Brief
A research tool for analysts who must defend every conclusion they reach — and therefore every conclusion their software helps them reach.
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Halcyon AI
- Sector
- Artificial Intelligence
- Disciplines
- Product Design, AI Integration
- Year
- 2026
- Type
- Self-initiated concept
02 — Challenge
AI answers arrive fluent and confident whether or not they are right. Analysts need to see where an answer came from, how sure it is, and what it ignored — without drowning in detail.
03 — Approach
- 01
Sources first
Every claim is anchored to a source passage. Hover a sentence to see the evidence; click to open it in context.
- 02
Visible uncertainty
Confidence is shown typographically — weaker claims are set lighter — so uncertainty reads at a glance rather than in a footnote.
- 03
Latency as design material
Streaming responses are choreographed: structure appears first, details fill in, so waiting feels like watching work happen.
04 — System
Palette
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Form#16181b
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Typography
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Geist / Geist
A single family across weights to encode confidence and hierarchy.
05 — Intended outcomes
- An interaction model for trustworthy AI output that can be applied across products
- A component library for citations, confidence and comparison
- An evaluation harness to test answer quality before release
As a concept study, these describe what the design is built to achieve — not measured results from a live engagement.
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