"The claim that the user interface (UI) as we know it is numbered may sound like thunder in a clear sky to many, but to those who have followed the trajectory of technology, it is merely the next storm on the horizon. The future of the human experience with digital products necessarily depends on the relationship we will have with information - whether predicted or post-dicted."
"On May 8, 2025, Nielsen launched this straightforward premise: with the advent of superintelligence, or even with faster advances in AI agents, users will no longer interact directly with graphical interfaces of websites and apps. Instead, they will delegate tasks to intelligent "agents" that will act on their behalf. The need to design buttons, menus, and complex navigation flows would vanish, as interaction would occur through commands and dialogues with these digital assistants."
""No more UI: once superintelligence arrives in 2030, there will be no UI design, since users will be using their agents instead of interacting directly with websites or traditional software." - Jakob Nielsen"
User interfaces face potential obsolescence as interaction migrates toward delegated intelligent systems. Human experience with digital products will depend on how information is accessed, predicted, and interpreted by AI. Advances in AI and forthcoming quantum computing will reshape digital environments and influence human development across decades or longer. Technology will remain a means that continually redefines perception and interaction rather than an endpoint. A prominent prediction foresees that superintelligence and advanced AI agents will act on users' behalf, removing the need for traditional graphical interfaces, buttons, menus, and complex navigation as interactions become conversational and agent-mediated.
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