Matching AI Modality To User Intent: Designing The Right Interface

Smashing Magazine · [email protected] (Victor Yocco) · Jul 2 · 1 min · 0 views

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We’ve fallen into conversational tunnel vision, defaulting every AI capability into a chat-based interface simply because LLMs are trained on dialogue data. But great UX is about matching modality to users’ context, intent, and cognitive load, so the…

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