# Brifo for Designers

Brifo captures design crits, user feedback, and cross-team reviews on macOS without a bot. Feedback structured per critique, no missed action items.

## What Designers struggle with
- Design crits generate fast-moving feedback hard to capture while presenting
- User testing sessions need verbatim reactions captured
- Cross-functional reviews (eng, product, marketing) need action item tracking
- Stakeholder feedback gets paraphrased and loses specificity
- Iterating on designs means going back to previous critique sessions for context
- Sharing feedback summaries with the team takes too long

## How Brifo helps
### Capture crit feedback while you present
Walk through your designs without splitting attention between presenting and note-taking. Brifo captures all the feedback.

### Verbatim user reactions
User testing sessions preserve the exact reactions. Usable in case studies, design rationale docs, and stakeholder readouts.

### Cross-functional action items
Feedback from eng, PM, marketing on shared design reviews structured per stakeholder for follow-up.

### Design decision history
Why did we move away from the modal pattern? Brifo Q&A pulls the critique session where the decision was made.

### Team-ready summaries
Per-attendee feedback summaries generated automatically. Share with the team without rewriting.

### No bot in user testing
Test participants don't see a third party. Better candid reactions.

## A day in your week
- **10:00 AM**: Design crit with team (Brifo: Captures feedback while you present, structured per critique)
- **12:00 PM**: User testing session (Brifo: Verbatim reactions preserved for design rationale)
- **2:00 PM**: Cross-functional design review (Brifo: Action items split by stakeholder (eng, PM, marketing))
- **4:00 PM**: 1:1 with design lead (Brifo: Career commitments plus design direction feedback captured)

## TL;DR
Designers can't take notes while presenting. Brifo captures every crit and user test on macOS. Verbatim feedback, structured action items, free during beta.

Designers have a structural problem with meeting notes. Most of their meetings involve presenting work, and you can't present and take notes at the same time without missing one. Crits, user tests, stakeholder reviews. All generate critical feedback exactly when your hands are on the screen. Brifo solves this by removing note-taking entirely from the designer's responsibility. Capture happens automatically on macOS, feedback gets structured per critique or per stakeholder, and the team-readable summary is ready to share before you leave the room. For user testing especially, the bot-free architecture matters. Test participants behave more authentically when there's no visible third party in the call.

## FAQ
**Can Brifo capture user testing sessions?**

Yes. Verbatim reactions preserved for design rationale, case studies, and stakeholder readouts.

**Does Brifo work with Figma or other design tools?**

Brifo captures the meeting, not the design tool. You'd export notes manually to Figma or your design doc.

**Will test participants see a bot in the call?**

No. Brifo captures macOS system audio locally. Participants see only the meeting attendees.

**Can Brifo help with design decision history?**

Yes. Meeting Q&A chat returns the critique session where a specific decision was discussed.

**Does Brifo work for solo designers?**

Yes. Free during beta. Capture every crit and review without a team setup.

**Is Brifo private enough for client design work?**

Yes. Audio stays on your Mac. Client work captured locally with no third-party cloud audio.