Hi, happy you're here.

I'm Eliza,

i give complex systems a voice people can trust

I build the whole conversation. Utterance research, intent mapping, observation testing and the chatbot itself.

selected works

bucharest · romaniaen · ro · de · es

Turning it is the only thing it does. It spends itself in about twenty seconds, leaning further as it slows, and comes to rest upright. Any touch starts it again.

what i've built

  1. conversation design 1 chatbot Eliza, the scripted guide on this site, with 139 intents.
  2. conversation design 1 generative docs agent The conversation layer of Askmanu, which writes documentation for GitHub pull requests.
  3. technical writing 2 documentation sets Oracle Clinical One and Empirica, written over 4.5 years.
  4. ux writing 1 in-app guide Guidance inside Oracle Clinical One, with task success up 40%.
  5. ux writing 1 onboarding flow For a construction platform that reached 2 million people.
  6. ux research 1 funded roadmap Built from 100+ interviews for the €201M Interreg programme.
  7. recognition 1 gold award 2024 Indigo Design Award, for the Redwood design system.

Pull up a chair. A good conversation keeps the kettle warm for as long as you stay.

I bring curiosity, utility, facilitation, presence and emotional nuance to every conversation I build.

Some bots feel like a merry-go-round. Others like a well-organized cabinet facilitator.

They solve your problem, speak the same dialect, and leave you with a feeling of accomplishment.

Your complex system and the people who use it speak the same language.

The tone it takes when you're in a rush, a genuinely kind “I don't know”, and the fierceness with which it keeps your data. A digestible way to read, the level of detail, and the larger picture: all of that fits into your design system. It adapts without stealing the shine and without losing its pizzazz.

One voice connects all of it.

I begin with how people search.

That is the foundational research for the experience. The voice uses the intended wording, not the expert one, and takes people from where they are to exactly where they need to go. Without it, a chatbot becomes an infinite loop, and its users live in a perpetual Groundhog Day.

The voice is already yours.

We go back to the little things that matter most. The way people have used your service for generations, like a dowry. The feeling people have after they leave your offices. The values you cherish to this day. And, sure, what a museum of the future will say about how your products changed innovation forever.

what colleagues and mentors say

talk

At Document360 I talked about documentation that AI systems read and act on, and what it takes to trust it.

The clip starts where I talk about ownership. The full talk runs 34 minutes.

watch the full talk on youtube

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community

contact

A role, a project or a question: write to me.

write@elizamarin.com