"The most advanced artificial intelligence systems in history now ask us to communicate through a blinking cursor in an empty text box. We have, in the most literal sense, gone backward. For the last forty years, the entire trajectory of interaction design has been a movement away from the command line and toward direct manipulation."
"We're in a moment where it has never been cheaper or faster to build something convincing. The cost of taking an idea and making it look real, feel functional, or seem finished has collapsed. That is genuinely good news if you already know what you're building and why. It's dangerous if you don't."
"This is the reality of design at high-growth startups in the AI era. Engineers can build so fast and so independently that trying to map out the product area is a lost cause. Some of the traditional tools of product design - mapping and evaluating UX from a bird's eye view - are useless. So what do you do instead?"
Advanced artificial intelligence systems require communication through a blinking cursor in an empty text box, reversing decades of progress in interaction design. For forty years, interaction design has trended away from command-line interaction and toward direct manipulation. Building convincing products has become dramatically cheaper and faster, collapsing the cost of turning ideas into functional, finished-looking experiences. This speed benefits people who already understand what they are building and why, but it is dangerous when goals and understanding are missing. High-growth AI-era startups face a product design challenge because engineers can build independently and quickly, making bird’s-eye mapping and evaluation tools less useful, requiring alternative approaches.
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