MIRROR: Designing Context, Privacy, and Control for AIMIRROR: Designing Context, Privacy, and Control for AI
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The biggest problem with AI might not be intelligence. It might be context.
As we move between ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and other AI tools, one problem keeps emerging: our context is scattered, our preferences get repeated, and important details don't always make it into the conversation where they're needed.
MIRROR is my exploration of a different approach.
It's a concept prototype built around one question: What if you could control what an AI knows about you, instead of starting from scratch every time?
The experience explores three key ideas:
→ Context Composer: Identify the information relevant to a task and prepare a focused context pack.
→ Privacy Boundary: Give users control over what gets included, reviewed or excluded.
→ Memory & Context Conflicts: Make preferences visible, editable and easier to resolve when new requests contradict previous ones.
The design challenge was to make an abstract AI infrastructure problem feel tangible through a clear, intuitive interface, without overwhelming users with complexity.
MIRROR is currently a simulated prototype, not a live product with real AI integrations. It's an exploration of how context, privacy and user control could work together in AI experiences.
Because the next step in AI might not be giving it more information.
It might be giving it the right information, with the right boundaries.
I'd love to hear how other product designers and AI builders think about this problem.
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