When we started building Motives, one thing was clear: we wanted people to engage with our AI interviewer in a conversational, spoken way, with key insights supported by video clips of real humans.
This posed a challenge: if users are to interact with Motives as they would on a video call (like Google Meet or Zoom), the AI interviewer needed a visual identity that was animated and engaging.
Our goal was to make the interviewer human-like—but not too human. In a world of hyper-realistic, AI-generated visuals and deepfakes, we opted for simplicity. We also wanted the interviewer to be inclusive, adaptable, and neutral in terms of gender and ethnicity.
What we went with was a gestural, monochromatic drawing of a person with a simple blinking animation. It’s friendly yet unobtrusive — we've heard from interviewees that the neutral, open experience can make them especially comfortable opening up. It can also speak with different voices, accents, and languages for different audiences.
Interested in trying out the Motives AI interviewer yourself? We'd love to hear your feedback. Get in touch at hello@motives.ai.
