Humm

Work

Humm

A Mac app we designed and built for talking to your Claude Code sessions. Hold a key, say it, and it reaches the right session.

Services

UI/UX and app development

Scope

Native macOS app: design, development, motion and identity

Year

2026

Tools

Figma, Swift

The brief

A self-initiated product we designed and built end to end. Designers who run several Claude Code sessions think out loud and keep their hands on the canvas. Humm lets them talk to any session without switching windows: hold Right Option, say it, check what it heard, approve the work.

The idea

Humm lives in the notch beside the camera. It listens while you hold the key and opens just enough to show your words, the reply and the work. Each session has its own colour; on-air red only ever means Humm is listening.

Key decisions

Hold to talk

Why

Wake words misfire and buttons need a cursor.

Effect

Right Option is always under a thumb. Hold it, talk, let go to send.

It reads back big asks

Why

Speech is messy: false starts, corrections, “no wait”.

Effect

Humm strikes out the words you take back as you speak, then reads the request back before it acts.

Nothing ships without a yes

Why

A slip of the tongue should never deploy a site.

Effect

Deploys and deletes wait in the notch for a click or ⏎.

Hold to talk

Why

Wake words misfire and buttons need a cursor.

Effect

Right Option is always under a thumb. Hold it, talk, let go to send.

It reads back big asks

Why

Speech is messy: false starts, corrections, “no wait”.

Effect

Humm strikes out the words you take back as you speak, then reads the request back before it acts.

Nothing ships without a yes

Why

A slip of the tongue should never deploy a site.

Effect

Deploys and deletes wait in the notch for a click or ⏎.

Hold to talk

Why

Wake words misfire and buttons need a cursor.

Effect

Right Option is always under a thumb. Hold it, talk, let go to send.

It reads back big asks

Why

Speech is messy: false starts, corrections, “no wait”.

Effect

Humm strikes out the words you take back as you speak, then reads the request back before it acts.

Nothing ships without a yes

Why

A slip of the tongue should never deploy a site.

Effect

Deploys and deletes wait in the notch for a click or ⏎.

Hold to talk

Why

Wake words misfire and buttons need a cursor.

Effect

Right Option is always under a thumb. Hold it, talk, let go to send.

It reads back big asks

Why

Speech is messy: false starts, corrections, “no wait”.

Effect

Humm strikes out the words you take back as you speak, then reads the request back before it acts.

Nothing ships without a yes

Why

A slip of the tongue should never deploy a site.

Effect

Deploys and deletes wait in the notch for a click or ⏎.

Hold to talk

Why

Wake words misfire and buttons need a cursor.

Effect

Right Option is always under a thumb. Hold it, talk, let go to send.

It reads back big asks

Why

Speech is messy: false starts, corrections, “no wait”.

Effect

Humm strikes out the words you take back as you speak, then reads the request back before it acts.

Nothing ships without a yes

Why

A slip of the tongue should never deploy a site.

Effect

Deploys and deletes wait in the notch for a click or ⏎.

Hold to talk

Why

Wake words misfire and buttons need a cursor.

Effect

Right Option is always under a thumb. Hold it, talk, let go to send.

It reads back big asks

Why

Speech is messy: false starts, corrections, “no wait”.

Effect

Humm strikes out the words you take back as you speak, then reads the request back before it acts.

Nothing ships without a yes

Why

A slip of the tongue should never deploy a site.

Effect

Deploys and deletes wait in the notch for a click or ⏎.

UI/UX

Five pieces that run in the page: the notch, talking in the window, Ideas, Taste and opening the app. One story runs through them, a pricing page for Docket. After them come the screens, the components and the system.