Think Pad demo: Live dictation. Just talk. It writes the email.

Think Pad

Extending Wispr Flow's Scratchpad

What motivated me to create this?

One thing I noticed while using Wispr is that I can’t see my live transcript while speaking. When I’m writing something longer—an email, essay, or even a long prompt—I rely heavily on the words I’ve already written to inform my next thought and the language I use.

Without that visual reference, I find it easier to lose my train of thought, repeat myself, or give Wispr a less structured stream of dictation than I otherwise would.

My normal process ends up being a brain dump of ideas and sentences, followed by organizing and proofreading between ChatGPT and a Word doc. Something that feels like it should take 5 minutes can easily take 20 across three different platforms.

Wispr’s Scratchpad already gives me the floating thinking space I want, so I started playing around with how it could better support the thinking that happens while I’m speaking. My extension adds a live transcript so I can refer back to what I’ve already said and maintain my train of thought, while also giving me a lightweight way to reorganize, edit, and transform those thoughts without constantly oscillating between apps.

I know this began with a problem I personally experience, but I also noticed the behavior recurring among people around me. And I really liked something from Wispr’s Master Plan:

“Instead of building a general solution, we'll make sure that 50 people who desperately want that problem solved fall in love with the UX.”

That idea resonated with how I think about design: I'd rather deeply solve a specific human problem than design something broadly useful but only mildly valuable.

How I used AI in my workflow?

I used AI across the end-to-end design workflow, treating ChatGPT and Claude Design as tools for research, ideation, and prototyping rather than as one-shot design generators.

1) I used ChatGPT to surface resources on emerging interaction patterns for voice interfaces and to pressure-test my product thinking.

2) Next, I used Wispr itself to dictate a README that consolidated that research, conversations with a product manager friend, product requirements, and design rationale into a shared context source for Claude.

3) After translating Wispr's existing visual system into Claude Design, I explored both AI-generated and hand-sketched low-fidelity concepts and selected the strongest interactions myself before drafting my final prompt, which I restructured using Wispr's Transform feature into a clear framework (role, task, context, inputs, constraints, references, and an execution checklist) to give Claude precise design intent.

4) Finally, I iterated on the generated prototype against my original UX goals and recorded a working demo; my next step is to bring the same context into Claude Code to turn the scripted demonstration into something users can actually interact with and test.

Year

2026

Tools

Claude Design
Chat GPT

Think Pad demo: Live dictation. Just talk. It writes the email.

Think Pad

Extending Wispr Flow's Scratchpad

Year

2026

Tools

Claude Design · Chat GPT

What motivated me to create this?

One thing I noticed while using Wispr is that I can’t see my live transcript while speaking. When I’m writing something longer—an email, essay, or even a long prompt—I rely heavily on the words I’ve already written to inform my next thought and the language I use.

Without that visual reference, I find it easier to lose my train of thought, repeat myself, or give Wispr a less structured stream of dictation than I otherwise would.

My normal process ends up being a brain dump of ideas and sentences, followed by organizing and proofreading between ChatGPT and a Word doc. Something that feels like it should take 5 minutes can easily take 20 across three different platforms.

Wispr’s Scratchpad already gives me the floating thinking space I want, so I started playing around with how it could better support the thinking that happens while I’m speaking. My extension adds a live transcript so I can refer back to what I’ve already said and maintain my train of thought, while also giving me a lightweight way to reorganize, edit, and transform those thoughts without constantly oscillating between apps.

I know this began with a problem I personally experience, but I also noticed the behavior recurring among people around me. And I really liked something from Wispr’s Master Plan:

“Instead of building a general solution, we'll make sure that 50 people who desperately want that problem solved fall in love with the UX.”

That idea resonated with how I think about design: I'd rather deeply solve a specific human problem than design something broadly useful but only mildly valuable.

How I used AI in my workflow?

I used AI across the end-to-end design workflow, treating ChatGPT and Claude Design as tools for research, ideation, and prototyping rather than as one-shot design generators.

1) I used ChatGPT to surface resources on emerging interaction patterns for voice interfaces and to pressure-test my product thinking.

2) Next, I used Wispr itself to dictate a README that consolidated that research, conversations with a product manager friend, product requirements, and design rationale into a shared context source for Claude.

3) After translating Wispr's existing visual system into Claude Design, I explored both AI-generated and hand-sketched low-fidelity concepts and selected the strongest interactions myself before drafting my final prompt, which I restructured using Wispr's Transform feature into a clear framework (role, task, context, inputs, constraints, references, and an execution checklist) to give Claude precise design intent.

4) Finally, I iterated on the generated prototype against my original UX goals and recorded a working demo; my next step is to bring the same context into Claude Code to turn the scripted demonstration into something users can actually interact with and test.

Think Pad demo: Live dictation. Just talk. It writes the email.

Think Pad

Extending Wispr Flow's Scratchpad

Year

2026

Tools

Claude Design
Chat GPT

What motivated me to create this?

One thing I noticed while using Wispr is that I can’t see my live transcript while speaking. When I’m writing something longer—an email, essay, or even a long prompt—I rely heavily on the words I’ve already written to inform my next thought and the language I use.

Without that visual reference, I find it easier to lose my train of thought, repeat myself, or give Wispr a less structured stream of dictation than I otherwise would.

My normal process ends up being a brain dump of ideas and sentences, followed by organizing and proofreading between ChatGPT and a Word doc. Something that feels like it should take 5 minutes can easily take 20 across three different platforms.

Wispr’s Scratchpad already gives me the floating thinking space I want, so I started playing around with how it could better support the thinking that happens while I’m speaking. My extension adds a live transcript so I can refer back to what I’ve already said and maintain my train of thought, while also giving me a lightweight way to reorganize, edit, and transform those thoughts without constantly oscillating between apps.

I know this began with a problem I personally experience, but I also noticed the behavior recurring among people around me. And I really liked something from Wispr’s Master Plan:

“Instead of building a general solution, we'll make sure that 50 people who desperately want that problem solved fall in love with the UX.”

That idea resonated with how I think about design: I'd rather deeply solve a specific human problem than design something broadly useful but only mildly valuable.

How I used AI in my workflow?

I used AI across the end-to-end design workflow, treating ChatGPT and Claude Design as tools for research, ideation, and prototyping rather than as one-shot design generators.

1) I used ChatGPT to surface resources on emerging interaction patterns for voice interfaces and to pressure-test my product thinking.

2) Next, I used Wispr itself to dictate a README that consolidated that research, conversations with a product manager friend, product requirements, and design rationale into a shared context source for Claude.

3) After translating Wispr's existing visual system into Claude Design, I explored both AI-generated and hand-sketched low-fidelity concepts and selected the strongest interactions myself before drafting my final prompt, which I restructured using Wispr's Transform feature into a clear framework (role, task, context, inputs, constraints, references, and an execution checklist) to give Claude precise design intent.

4) Finally, I iterated on the generated prototype against my original UX goals and recorded a working demo; my next step is to bring the same context into Claude Code to turn the scripted demonstration into something users can actually interact with and test.