Behaviour, not just layout
How an agent hesitates, asks, recovers and admits it is unsure. Conduct becomes a design surface as concrete as type and colour, with its own patterns, its own failures and its own craft.
What we’ll design after AI
The new materials and surfaces that become the designer’s job.
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Read as MarkdownThe work that arrives is less about arranging things on a surface and more about shaping how a system behaves when nobody is watching it.
Interfaces whose first reader is a machine
Many products will be visited by agents acting for people before people ever see them. Clean structure, legible actions and plain-text versions of every page become part of the craft. This site has one for each chapter.
The rules a generative system must never break
Brand, accessibility, safety and physical limits, written as constraints. The designer’s artefact becomes the space of acceptable outcomes rather than a single outcome inside it.
Objects that notice before they’re touched
Devices with fewer controls and more sensing. The design problem becomes when to act, how to show that something has been noticed, and how to stay quiet the rest of the time.
The tests that define good
Evaluations become design artefacts. Writing down what good looks like, precisely enough that it can be checked a million times a day, is a design skill before it is an engineering one.
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