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Help me read

Help me read

Help me read

I designed one of the first AI features to launch on ChromeOS.
"Help me read" uses Gemini AI to summarize written content – whether that's a website or a PDF – and lets you ask follow-up questions about its content.

A large breadth of iterative explorations

A large breadth of iterative explorations

A large breadth of iterative explorations

Our research has demonstrated that ChromeOS users frequently read multiple paragraphs of text on their laptop, especially articles (a large portion of our users being students, teachers, and professionals).


We explored different ways users could easily summarize content they interact with. Here are a few of them:

Chrome side panel

Mainly targeting website content at first, I explored solutions living directly in Chrome, in the existing side panel.

Temporary dialog

Another idea I explored was based off another AI feature that was launching at the same time in ChromeOS (Help me write).

Right click summaries

We also explored a way to show a summary directly on top of the existing contextual menu when performing a right click.

Right click to summarize

Right click to summarize

We landed on creating a consistent experience to access AI capabilities whenever users need it: behind an interaction people were already familiar with, the right click.

With the final feature, people can right-click over a word to get its definition, right click over editable text to get help writing it and right click anywhere to summarize the content on screen.

Alongside leveraging this existing interaction, we created a new surface/pattern to enable ChromeOS AI features.