How might AI change user interfaces

This 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?

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

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 t... See more

“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 🧵 (1/10) https://t.co/Q3K8GJvJ2H

AI-native UX What do apps look like when you design AI first? Starting a thread to collect some examples I've found.

AI has a UI problem @OpenAI's decade of research worked when it became a chat UI @cursor_ai fastest growing saas when they baked co-pilot into the editor UI @meetgranola entered and scaling in the most AI saturated market with human agency UI Design is the differentiator

Personally, I see at least 2 "types" of websites. In short: I am for AI for "getting information quickly," against it for "consolidating the internet landscape." 1. "Get stuff done/get information quickly." Where efficiency is key. Get from A→B as fast as possible. "What does this error code mean?" would be an example. "How do I file this {IRS for... See more