How might AI change user interfaces
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How might AI change user interfaces
personality is the moat
gemini is technically great but feels like talking to a corporate helpdesk that’s read too many hr manuals. no edge, no warmth, no subtext. lack of custom instructions doesn’t help either.
for coding via third party apps, it’s fine. but for anything that requires vibe, intuition, or taste, i’ll take claude or gpt every time.
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... See moreThis brings me to my core thesis: The inconvenience and inferior data transfer speeds of conversational interfaces make them an unlikely replacement for existing computing paradigms – but what if they complement them?
Julian • The Case Against Conversational Interfaces
We keep telling ourselves that previous voice interfaces like Alexa or Siri didn’t succeed because the underlying AI wasn’t smart enough, but that’s only half of the story. The core problem was never the quality of the output function, but the inconvenience of the input function: A natural language prompt like “Hey Google, what’s the weather in San... See more
Julian • The Case Against Conversational Interfaces
My favorite example of truly effortless communication is a memory I have of my grandparents. At the breakfast table, my grandmother never had to ask for the butter – my grandfather always seemed to pass it to her automatically, because after 50+ years of marriage he just sensed that she was about to ask for it. It was like they were communicating... See more
Julian Lehr • The Case Against Conversational Interfaces
“We made painting feel like typing, when we should have made typing feel like painting.”
Our Interfaces Have Lost Their Senses by @Wattenberger https://t.co/zcXe0WAbyP
Photoshop for text. In our #CHI2025 paper “Textoshop”, we explore how interactions inspired by drawing software can help edit text. We consider words as pixels, sentences as regions, and tones as colours. #HCI #NLProc #LLMs #AI Thread 🧵
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