How might AI change user interfaces

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

Chat is overrated as a user experience. Good visualization, information hierarchy, copy, call to actions is underrated as a user experience. Multiply all of these effects by 10X when you have the power of an LLM involved. Start with great UX, not a chatbot.

What an interesting moment. We're staring at two distinctly different visions of the future. They may co-exist, but they are radically different takes on what's modern, what's current, and where things are headed. One vision gets the UI out of the way. The other vision is UI… Show more

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?

Put another way, will humans will always want to do things like scroll Instagram, but perhaps won't ever want to open TurboTax/Docusign/Concur/Foursquare/etc. again?

This will likely bring a very psychological approach to company building in software (something well-known in consumer but lesser used in enterprise), as companies will have to look at ... See more