Jin Kim

you are collaborating with the system to achieve a desired outcome.

We’re likely going to have to reinvent our design processes – working forward to understand capabilities, rather than backwards from user needs.

Form acts as a way to set the context – like the way an axe looks and feels in your hand, you get an immediate sense of its purpose.

I believe a better option is to build a functional application with a more traditional UI and then complement it with AI functions.

It doesn’t need neon “powered by AI” labels; it should weave itself so seamlessly into the user journey that it feels like a natural extension of intent.

AI is bringing a similar shift to UI design, moving us away from rigid, step-by-step processes and toward fluid, intuitive workflows.

you are refining a request rather than directly altering pixels

But we face a fundamental tension in that AI sort of breaks our usual way of designing things, working back from function, and shaping the form.