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Topaz Framework
Topaz is a modular, role-aware UX framework developed to help design teams navigate ethical, scalable, and practical GenAI product design.
Client:
Independent Major Project (MA UXD)
Role:
Lead Researcher, Product Designer
Date:
Jan-April 2025
Preview
“You have clearly gone beyond surface reading by engaging 45 participants through surveys, interviews and co-design workshop. Your application of RtD is methodologically rigorous, iterative, and transparent. The Topaz framework demonstrates strong originality, in particular for its role-aware structure, tool integration prompts, and compliance awareness.”
– Dr. Chengcheng Qu, Final Major Project Lecturer, Falmouth University
Key contributions include:
- Modular Framework Design: Created an 18-step UX framework structured into 6 clusters, addressing GenAI-specific challenges such as ethical ambiguity, stakeholder alignment, and model unpredictability.
- Role-Sensitive UX Innovation: Developed a system of role-based entry points customised for designers, developers, and product leads, enabling relevance and clarity across diverse teams.
- Research-Through-Design Process: Conducted 45 data entries through surveys, interviews, co-design workshops, and usability testing to iteratively refine the framework around real-world needs.
- Practical Ethical Integration: Introduced toggles and prompts for accessibility, compliance, and safety, making ethical design decisions traceable and actionable throughout the development lifecycle.
- Toolchain Integration: Designed Topaz to embed seamlessly with industry-standard tools like GitHub, Figma, Notion, and Miro, promoting adoption without disrupting existing workflows.
- Evaluative Impact: Received 86% tester approval for real-world use; recognised for modularity and UI clarity, with 77% highlighting the value of the role-based structure and many citing its usefulness in compliance and planning sessions.
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Topaz Framework
Topaz is a modular, role-aware UX framework developed to help design teams navigate ethical, scalable, and practical GenAI product design.
Client:
Independent Major Project (MA UXD)
Role:
Lead Researcher, Product Designer
Date:
Jan-April 2025
Preview
“You have clearly gone beyond surface reading by engaging 45 participants through surveys, interviews and co-design workshop. Your application of RtD is methodologically rigorous, iterative, and transparent. The Topaz framework demonstrates strong originality, in particular for its role-aware structure, tool integration prompts, and compliance awareness.”
– Dr. Chengcheng Qu, Final Major Project Lecturer, Falmouth University
Key contributions include:
- Modular Framework Design: Created an 18-step UX framework structured into 6 clusters, addressing GenAI-specific challenges as ethical ambiguity, stakeholder alignment, and model unpredictability.
- Role-Sensitive UX Innovation: Developed a system of role-based entry points customised for designers, developers, and product leads, enabling relevance and clarity across diverse teams.
- Research-Through-Design Process: Conducted 45 data entries through surveys, interviews, co-design workshops, and usability testing to iteratively refine the framework around real-world needs.
- Practical Ethical Integration: Introduced toggles and prompts for accessibility, compliance, and safety, making ethical design decisions traceable and actionable throughout the development.
- Toolchain Integration: Designed Topaz to embed seamlessly with industry-standard tools like GitHub, Figma, Notion, and Miro, promoting adoption without disrupting existing workflows.
- Evaluative Impact: Received 86% tester approval for real-world use; recognised for modularity and UI clarity, with 77% highlighting the value of the role-based structure and many citing its usefulness in compliance and planning sessions.
