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Alex Cornell describes AI software design as the creation of a conversational entity. Visual choices like text bubbles and proactive messages frame the user experience as an ongoing relationship.
Systems capable of proactive messaging change the basic approach to product design.
“…simple things like the fact that an agent can message you proactively changes the nature of like how you think about the product from a design perspective.”
From Design Consumer AI as a Companion, Not Developer Software
An AI agent named Marlo consolidated forgotten bookmarks into a personal manual for Alex Cornell.
“I had Marlo do it and then consolidate them all into like a manual and so that I had this like kind of like for Alex like these are the things you should work apparently you think you should work on…”
Design patterns like text message bubbles create the feeling of an ongoing human exchange. The interface mimics the dynamics of two people interacting in person.
“The basic framing that always we went back to and I think was probably the most helpful was just imagining that this interface was more of an exchange between you and an entity…”
From Design Consumer AI as a Companion, Not Developer Software
“…we have bubbles around our messages you know and like that's typically something that you associate more with messaging than like an AI app.”
From Design Consumer AI as a Companion, Not Developer Software
AI tools can organize plain records into fun custom outputs. One project gathered 20 years of blog posts to produce a daily morning audio show.
“…one of my favorite things, I think, to do with these systems is take what would be otherwise like a fairly mundane set of data and render it in a way that I personally find really fun.”
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