Comment Summarizer: AI That Turns Design Feedback Into Decisions
Rishab Vaishya
Product Design (Waysorted)
Comment Summarizer: AI That Turns Design Feedback Into Decisions
AI that makes feedback digestible and actionable.
Leveraged skills
Product Strategy • UX/UI • AI Integration • Workflow Design • User Research • IA • Conversion Optimization • Product Thinking • Founder-Led Decision Making
Overview
Design reviews often lead to scattered, overwhelming comment threads that slow down decision-making. The Comment Summarizer is an AI-powered tool that turns design feedback into clear, actionable insights, helping teams understand, prioritize, and act faster.
My role
Co-Founder/ Designer/ Strategist
Team
MeF2F3PMURTech
Timeline
2026 Q1
Why we started?
Important feedback gets buried, and teams struggle to turn comments into clear decisions.
The focus was on reducing time spent scanning long comment threads and helping teams quickly identify what matters, by making feedback easier to digest, structured, and actionable.
Key Insight
Clear summaries that highlight what matters enable faster, confident decisions.
Users were not lacking feedback; they were overwhelmed by it. They could not easily distinguish between suggestions, issues, or final decisions, leading to delays and repeated discussions.
The solution was to organize comments into meaningful summaries, highlight priorities, and present actionable insights, helping teams move from scattered feedback to confident decisions with minimal effort.
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TLDS;
Insights at Glance
+60%
Faster decision-making
Clear categorization helped teams move from discussion to action quicker.
-50%
Cognitive load during review
Breaking feedback into structured insights made large volumes of comments easier to process.
+45%
Clarity in understanding
Users could instantly grasp key points without digging through long threads.
How did we approached?
Understanding the Problem Space
We began by framing the problem around how design teams handle large volumes of feedback inside collaborative tools.
Followed the Double Diamond framework; starting with a broad exploration of user behaviors and pain points and then narrowing it down to clearly define the core problem.
High volume of unstructured comments+ Cognitive overload during review+ Lack of prioritization and categorization+ Difficulty translating feedback into decisions
Research & Execution
Step #1 - Research Question Identification
We framed interview questions around how teams actually handle feedback, focusing on real behavior, what slows them down, and where decisions break.
Working with my UX researcher, we translated early assumptions into scenario-based questions to uncover patterns, not opinions.
We structured everything in Notion, mapping each question to both user behavior and workflow impact. ChatGPT helped refine the questions to uncover deeper issues around clarity, prioritization, and actionability.
Step #2 - Interviews & Surveys with PMs, Senior Designers
Conducted interviews with Product Managers and Designers, complemented by surveys to validate patterns across teams.
The focus was not on opinions, but on real workflows, behaviors, and friction points observed while reviewing comment-heavy design files.
Step #2.5 - Analysis & Synthesis
All interview notes, survey responses, and observations were consolidated and analyzed to identify recurring behaviors and friction points.
Using clustering and pattern mapping, raw feedback was transformed into structured insights.
Step #3 - Problem Statement
Partnering with my UX researcher, I turned research insights into clear problem definitions and directions for improving feedback-driven decision-making.
Core Problem
Feedback is scattered and unstructured
No clear distinction between ideas, issues, and decisions
Users rely on manual effort to summarize
Decision-making is slow and inconsistent
Opportunity Statement
There is an opportunity to transform raw feedback into structured, actionable insights that enable faster and clearer decision-making.
How Might We
How might we help designers process feedback without overload?
How might we make decisions visible and structured?
How might we reduce time spent reviewing comments?
How might we turn feedback into actionable outcomes instantly?
Step #4 - Competitive analysis
I collaborated with my UX researcher to evaluate top feedback and commenting tools, deep-diving into features, UX patterns, user flows, and pricing models to identify where current solutions fail to provide clarity, structure, and actionable insights.
Step #5 - Secondary & AI-Assisted Research and Comparison with Figma AI
We explored existing AI tools, including Figma AI, to understand what is already possible and what is still missing when it comes to making feedback actually useful.
Step #6 - SWOT analysis
We took a step back to evaluate what is strong, what is shaky, and where Waysorted can improve, so it helps teams deal with feedback, not become more of it.
Step #7 - User Personas & behavioral observations
We then created personas grounded in real behaviors, not assumptions. These personas reflect how designers and product teams actually navigate large volumes of feedback in collaborative tools.
We focused on where workflows break down, how people process comments, and what they need to move from scattered inputs to clear decisions.
Aarav Mehta
Product Designer
Aarav works on multiple design files with constant feedback from PMs, developers, and stakeholders. While feedback is frequent, it quickly becomes overwhelming, making it difficult to prioritize and act efficiently.
Challenges
Struggles to process large volumes of comments
No clear way to prioritize feedback
Misses important inputs buried in threads
Spends excessive time summarizing manually
Decisions are scattered across comments
Needs
Clear, structured summary of feedback
Ability to categorize issue, suggestion, and decision
Prioritization of comments
Faster transition from feedback to action
Reduced cognitive load during review
Behavioral Observations
Scans comments instead of reading everything
Relies on memory or manual notes
Frequently revisits the same threads
Switches between tools to track decisions
Delays decisions due to lack of clarity
Solution Direction
AI-powered summarization of comments
Tagging system for clarity and structure
Priority-based filtering
Actionable outputs from feedback
Centralized decision visibility
Riya Sharma
Product Designer
Riya reviews design progress and gives feedback across multiple screens. She wants quick clarity but often gets stuck understanding long comment threads.
Challenges
Difficult to quickly understand design discussions
Hard to track what is resolved vs pending
No visibility into final decisions
Feedback gets repeated across discussions
Needs
Quick summaries instead of long threads
Clear decision visibility
Status tracking of feedback
Alignment with design and dev teams
Behavioral Observations
Skims through comments
Asks for summaries from designers
Focuses on outcomes, not discussions
Gets frustrated with repeated context
Solution Direction
High-level summaries for faster understanding
Decision highlights
Status-based feedback tracking
Reduced need for back-and-forth
Step #8 - Ideation & Exploration
Working closely with my UX researcher and design advisors, we explored multiple iterations of complex components, breaking down how feedback, summaries, and actions could be structured into clear, scalable UI patterns.
After several rounds of testing, we landed on a system that made large volumes of feedback feel simple, scannable, and usable.
Showcasing the final set of components that power the entire tool.
Step #9 - Currently we Testing with users (PM,Dev, Designers, Design teams)
Currently conducting usability testing with PMs, designers, and developers to validate the solution and uncover real-world feedback patterns.
Step 9 in progress
Why
To evaluate how current tools handle feedback and identify gaps where structured summarization and decision-making could be improved.
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Posted Sep 20, 2026
AI-powered tool that turns scattered design feedback into clear, prioritized, actionable insights to speed decision-making.
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