The next big AI-UX trend — it’s not Conversational UI
Everything is an input and everything is an output. What if you could browse ALL your things in ONE fluid interface?
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Apr 1, 2024
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AI’s like my 4-year-old nephew. Every week, he wants to be something new when he grows up…
One day it’s a soccer pro. The next day it’s an astronaut. Now, he just wants to be a garbage man.
AI’s similar. It has a ton of different narratives right now.
Human clone. Stalker. World domination. You name it.
Here’s exactly where we are today:
Conversational UX / Chat-styled interactions is what everyone’s making.
Some tasks which are possible through conversational UX —
- Fire-and-forget-tasks like “play music”.
- Specific trivia queries like “weather”, adding To-Dos.
- A conversational partner like an AI girlfriend.
But there are many problems with conversational UX —
- People land on an empty screen. They then try to decipher what all can be done.
- People use apps which keep track of their state.
- Editing — Whether it be video, audio or article, you need store the draft version to come back to later on.
- Travel planning — tracking what places you’ve seen and which bookings you’ve already made.
- Researching — opening 50 tabs to keep track of the different directions you’re exploring.
So the next question is obvious — what’s after ChatGPT? Are we meant to be…
