Design Patterns For AI Interfaces — Smashing Magazine

July 15, 2025

Smashing Magazine article titled “Design Patterns For AI Interfaces” by Vitaly Friedman, featuring tags for AI, User Interface, and Design Patterns, with a cartoon cat chasing a bird and leaves in the bottom right corner

So you need to design a new AI feature for your product. How would you start? How do you design flows and interactions? And how do you ensure that that new feature doesn’t get abandoned by users after a few runs?

In this article, I’d love to share a very simple but systematic approach to how I think about designing AI experiences. Hopefully, it will help you get a bit more clarity about how to get started.

Source: Design Patterns For AI Interfaces — Smashing Magazine

Most interaction design when it comes to incorporating LLMs and AI in user interfaces still seems to involve inserting a chat interface.
That’s in no small part part because we’re still very new to working with these technologies, and that fact that ChatGPT rockets in a matter of months to being the most widely used new product in the world.

Here Vitaly Friedman considers more deeply how we might incorporate these capabilities into the products we build.