In the era of #AI, trust is the currency.
We can no longer tell if images are AI-generated. LLMs hallucinate facts. And every prompt yields different results.
My new piece explores how #datavisualization can help us build AI experiences people trust.
www.formfollowsbehavior.com/p/on-trust?r...
Ready to design Intelligent Interfaces? We built a FigJam template with these seven lenses that you can use today:
🔗 sche.ma/toolkit
Do these lenses resonate with your work? How could you see using this toolkit?
#IntelligentInterfaces #AIUX
Persona Interrogation Lens
Lens 7: Persona Interrogation 🤖
An embodied AI partner—tutor, coach, therapist, creative collaborator. Focuses on depth over speed, building continuity through memory and consistent character. You can inspect, modify, delete memories in real-time.
Signal Monitoring Lens
Lens 6: Signal Monitoring 🚨
High-volume event streams where milliseconds count. AI classifies signals, executes pre-authorized responses, escalates edge cases. Critical for fraud detection, incident response, industrial safety—anywhere rapid response matters.
Ecosystems Exploration Lens
Lens 5: Ecosystems Exploration 🌐
Complex systems as dynamic causal graphs. You adjust parameters and watch ripple effects unfold. AI reveals downstream impacts and high-leverage intervention points. Suitable for supply chains, climate modeling, epidemiology.
Landscape Generation Lens
Lens 4: Landscape Generation 🗺️
Knowledge becomes explorable terrain. Topics cluster together, similarity creates distance, zoom changes detail level. AI scouts promising areas while you navigate. Perfect for research databases, drug discovery, any vast information space.
Goal Planning Lens
Lens 3: Goal Planning 🎯
Organize work around outcomes in a strategic hierarchy. You set the high-level goals, AI suggests sub-goals and execution plans. Every metric connects back to what actually matters. Works beautifully for OKRs and strategy management.
Process Completion Lens
Lens 2: Process Completion ⚡
Workflows become living playbooks instead of static checklists. Clear swim lanes show what’s human-only, AI-only, or collaborative. Great for CI/CD pipelines, CRM workflows, approvals—AI handles routine work, you handle the decisions.
Artifact Creation Lens
Lens 1: Artifact Creation 🎨
Turn any creative surface into a collaborative workspace. You write, AI does inline generation and refactoring. GitHub Copilot is a perfect example—intelligence woven directly into the creative process.
The Architecture of Intelligent Interfaces
Intelligent Interfaces are built on four layers that work together:
🧠 Intelligence Layer (language, vision, world models)
📚 Knowledge Layer (structured data)
⚙️ Automation Layer (workflows & integrations)
🎛️ Interface Layer (collaboration lenses)
Partial Autonomy UX
🧵 The @ycombinator.com.web.brid.gy talk by @karpathy.bsky.social had a great insight about “partial autonomy”—humans and AI working together, each bringing unique strengths. We’ve been working on Seven Lenses to help designers build these collaborative interfaces.
Link to FigJam toolkit below 👇
Whether managing agents or co-creating artifacts or navigating physical and digital worlds, we need to come up with the new idioms for how people experience AI.
The only thing that is certain is that nothing will be the same.
Let’s build. #AI #design
We need to dream up entirely new ways for people to work together with AI that didn’t exist before.
It’s about being intentional about the world we want. Not fitting the world into the AI narrative. It isn’t about the technology alone—but how it can empower us to be better. More human.
We’re at the vanguard of something entirely new with AI.
The old language of interfaces—buttons, menus, dashboards—isn’t enough to envision, let alone create, what’s emerging.
We’re in uncharted territory where the only path forward is creativity.
For builders in AI, design is the edge.
Because AI is largely invisible, the way a product feels to use—how it fits into our lives—matters more than ever.
Experience drives growth more than efficiency, speed, or having the best model.
Key insight from last Thursday’s “Human-Centered Design in a Machine-Centered Future” panels organized by IDEO SF and TEDAI:
Design matters.
Instead of changing our definitions of art, culture, and society to fit the AI narrative, we can shape our relationship with AI.
#AIUX #HumanCenteredDesign
Another experiment—dynamic flocking swarm algorithm with emergent behavior.
This one took only 2 prompts.
vibecoding keeps getting better.
#vibecoding #creativecoding
Experimenting with @figma.com Make—built this interactive 3D globe mapping the 250 largest cities by population and GDP.
Just a few prompts and it nailed the visual style I was going for. The speed of iteration on complex #dataviz is honestly wild 🌍
Thread inspired by excellent reporting from @ctrlzee.bsky.social: www.fastcompany.com/91341731/jon...
AI, Applied
The real opportunity isn’t another input method or device.
It’s fundamentally reorienting interfaces around collaboration—where AI amplifies human creativity and judgment rather than replacing it.
That’s the paradigm shift: from operating AI to thinking with AI.
#HumanAI #FutureOfWork
Intelligent Interfaces are based on Transparency, Context, Reliability, Control, Privacy, and Trust
But here's where I disagree with the #ZeroUI narrative:
Visual interfaces aren't disappearing. They’re becoming multimodal.
At @schemadesign.com we’re exploring #IntelligentInterfaces that respond to intent, not just commands, and adapt seamlessly across voice, gesture, context, and visual.I
The fourth modality
Jony Ive talks about 3 major modalities in computing history:
- Command line
- GUI (mouse, folders, windows)
- Mobile (voice, multitouch, gestures, haptics)
Any other forms we’ve seen are just “tributaries.”
Now he’s betting on a fourth.
(via @ctrlzee.bsky.social at @fastcompany.com)
Reducing layers of abstraction
From a developer’s perspective, interfaces have become increasingly abstracted from source code.
Yet paradoxically, every UI evolution has reduced layers of abstraction for humans, getting us closer to directly manipulating content vs. wrestling with the machine.
AI as a tool to AI as a thinking partner
Jony Ive and Sam Altman are building “quiet” AI hardware that could introduce computing’s fourth modality which some are also thinking of as ZeroUI.
But the real shift isn’t about eliminating interfaces—it’s about evolving from AI as a tool to AI as a thinking partner.
#AIUX #DesignThinking
Just published: “Designing for Human–AI Collaboration”
How do we move beyond chatbots and bolt-on assistants to create AI-native user experiences?
The most effective interfaces will treat AI as a partner.
Read the full article:
medium.com/schemadesign...
#AIUX #IntelligentInterfaces #Config2025
Excited to be here at #Config2025! Just saw the introduction of Figma Make, a vibe coding integration via Claude 3.7 Sonnet that can generate interactive prototypes from designs. Amazing new features coming!
#IntelligentInterfaces
Watch the full clip here (timestamp 7:03): youtu.be/HtPrpqh5Kxc?...
In a Bloomberg interview today, Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy gets it right: "any visual interface...has a better version powered by AI."
This is why @schemadesign.bsky.social is pioneering #IntelligentInterfaces that harness #AI to amplify human ingenuity.
The future of #UX design is AI-native.
As 2024 closes, I'm energized by the opportunities in #AI.
We're at a fascinating inflection point — AI's power to extract meaning from complex data is extraordinary, yet we're just beginning to imagine the interfaces needed to harness its potential.
Excited for what 2025 will bring!
#AppliedAI
Drawing on years of experience creating data-driven tools, we are now focusing on envisioning these intelligent interfaces as the next step in our firm's evolution.
Learn more about how we can work together: schemadesign.com
#AppliedAI #AI #IntelligentInterfaces #Data #UX
