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Ask & Adjust: The Future of Productivity Interfaces
The carefully engineered systems of factories were replaced with the “personal productivity” of offices, in which individuals deploy their own ad hoc and often ill-defined collection of tools and hacks to make sense of their jobs, with no one really knowing how anyone else is managing their work.
Cal Newport • Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
Great quote: “The great horizontal killer applications are actually just fancy data structures”.
I would add: it’s not just data structures, but information representations that expose those data structures in an intuitive way.
Intuitive how?
In that the graphical representation and interactive controls provide a transparent interface to the un... See more
This shift from deterministic traditional UI to something more unbridled raises a challenge for designers: with no predictable journeys to optimize, how do you create consistent, high-quality experiences?
Karri Saarinen • Design for the AI Age
I was curious who’s building AI interfaces that aren’t chat.
So I asked.
The responses were thoughtful, wide-ranging, and honestly a bit ahead of where I expected things to be.
Here’s what I learned:
1. Auto-Built UIs - AI creates the interface you need on the fly. Instead of
Work is changing
Work is changing, and we're only beginning to understand how. What's clear from these experiments is that the relationship between human expertise and AI capabilities isn't fixed. Sometimes I found myself acting as a creative director, other times as a troubleshooter, and yet other times as a domain expert validating results. It wa... See more
Work is changing, and we're only beginning to understand how. What's clear from these experiments is that the relationship between human expertise and AI capabilities isn't fixed. Sometimes I found myself acting as a creative director, other times as a troubleshooter, and yet other times as a domain expert validating results. It wa... See more
Ethan Mollick • Speaking things into existence
very day computers offer ever more powerful substitutes for traditional analog tools: calendars become dynamic, weather forecasts get regular updates, driving directions change with traffic predictions, and so forth. But these essential tools live in a restrictive environment dominated by siloed app architectures. Interfaces inside apps, and integr
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