for any productivity software, the only good use case for ai is lightweight, overridable autosuggests
if you try to add gen ai slop to my work tools, i will fight you
(early proto i whipped up for linear projects a week ago) https://t.co/7Bc4AvESiM
“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
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.
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
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
Question-answering systems and chatbots have inadvertently created a false narrative that AI can solve any problem with a simple prompt, including complex creative tasks like storytelling and filmmaking. The ability to generate video from language has been misinterpreted as the belief that you can create deep, emotionally sophisticated cinematic... 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... See more