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First seen 12 September 2025
Harj Taggar, YCx.com · 9 September 2026
The next era of enterprise software design is Civilization-style interfaces on top of company brains and agents.
Omar Rizwanx.com · 9 September 2026
I always liked this design -- it felt more representative of how I actually think/interact with chat, where it can float on the side while I do other stuff, as opposed to being a primary activity that I have to switch the whole phone screen to
Smashing Magazinesmashingmagazine.com · 9 September 2026
10 min readUX, Design, AIThe web is evolving beyond menus, forms, and endless clicks toward experiences shaped around human intent. For UX designers, understanding this shift means re-evaluating their role, moving from designing visible interfaces to guiding transparent, intent-driven AI experiences.Ever since the commercialisation of the Graphical User Interface pioneered by systems like the Xerox Star and popularised by the original Apple Macintosh, software has relied heavily on point-and-click interactions. If you wanted to book a trip, buy a pair of shoes, or research a health symptom, you were expected to navigate a labyrinth of user interfaces. You click menus, adjust range sliders, fill out multi-step forms, deal with cookie pop-ups, and open dozens of browser tabs just to cross-reference basic information. We have become accustomed to spending more time managing the software rather than actually achieving our goals.That contract is officially changing. Driven by advances in artificial intelligence and large language models, a new generation of web tools is pioneering a radical philosophy: Intent-Driven Design.
Guillermo Rauch, Vercel CEOx.com · 8 September 2026
Chat has won. It's all chat + computer from this point on
Stephanie Walter, UX + accessibilitybsky.app · 7 September 2026
I think it's useful to understand how front-end works, and where its limits are, when you build interfaces. So if you want to vibecode, you still need the basics. "To wireframe or not?" Apparently AI can build a full prototype now, so we don't need wireframes anymore, they say.
UX Collectiveuxdesign.cc · 5 September 2026 · not counted as a party
Reading and writing are interfaces. And AI can reduce their friction.