AI Needs UI. It seems like every day, someone who…
July 23, 2025
It seems like every day, someone who doesn’t know anything about design proclaims “UI is going away” thanks to advances in AI. The logic goes that soon we’ll just converse with an AI assistant to get everything done. We won’t need any of these pesky menus, buttons, maybe not even screens.
But user interfaces aren’t disappearing; they’re evolving. Remember when mobile became ascendent 20 years ago? We added new UI components to take advantage of what mobile could do. AI is the same. AI makes great UI more important than ever so that we can understand and use it effectively, building better mental models of what this technology can and cannot do. We cannot know AI capabilities and limitations solely from a text box.
Source: AI Needs UI. It seems like every day, someone who… | by Dan Saffer | Jul, 2025 | Medium
Dan Saffer is a luminary in the world of Design. We had the privilege of him speaking at a conference so long ago it’s not even on Conffab sadly. But like other deeply experienced User Experience designers, Luke Wroblewski and Josh Clarke come to mind, Dan brings his expertise, and long honed intuitions to the challenge of designing with AI, not just as a tool, but as a material.
We are at the command line era of user interface design when is comes to designing interactions with AI, which presents enormous opportunity.
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