Exploration 02
Parental controls, by voice
Concept
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Voice + visual
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EE app · Manage
The idea
Four decisions, one sentence
Setting up parental controls is a form. Which devices, what schedule, which days, what level, what gets blocked, each one a screen, a decision, and a tap. It’s not difficult, it’s just long enough that people put it off, and putting it off is the failure state for a feature parents actually want.
Spoken aloud, most of it collapses into a single sentence: “turn on parental controls every day at 6pm.” So the exploration was: tap the Aimee icon inside the parental controls component, say what you want, and let the assistant fill in the gaps by asking only for what’s genuinely missing.
Voice setup: the assistant opens over the Manage page, renders the spoken conversation as text as it happens, and closes on a summary card of every choice made.
Key moves
01
The entry point sits in the component, not the app
The Aimee icon lives inside the parental controls card itself rather than in a global toolbar. That’s the whole difference between an assistant you have to brief and one that already knows what you’re looking at, you never have to say the words “parental controls,” because tapping it there has said them for you.
02
Voice you can see
Although the conversation is spoken, it renders as text in real time. This is so the customer is fully aware of what is being send also what the AI is understanding from your side.
03
Always say what you’re doing
Listening… then Thinking… The failure mode of voice interfaces is the silence where you can’t tell whether it heard you, so you repeat yourself and talk over the response. Naming the state costs nothing and removes that pause entirely.
04
Land on something tappable
The conversation doesn’t end in a spoken confirmation; it ends on a card. Voice is genuinely bad at review, because you can’t scan it and you can’t check one detail without replaying the lot. So the commit step goes visual: every choice laid out at a glance, with Make changes sitting right next to it.
05
Overlay, don’t navigate
The panel sits over the Manage screen rather than taking the customer somewhere else. They arrived on that page for a reason, and when the conversation closes they’re still on it, with the thing they came to do now done, rather than four screens deep in a settings tree working out how to get back.
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