§05 • 2024
AI Product Experiments
Exploring how interfaces fundamentally transform when AI is a co-author.
6 sandboxes
Prototypes Built
32 participants
User Studies
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01 / The Friction & Problem
Most AI software is still being built as static legacy web forms with an awkward chatbot sidebar tacked on. This series of experimental prototypes asked: what does a graphical interface look like when the computational model is a co-author, not merely an asynchronous chatbot?
02 / The Core Concept
A suite of interaction primitives: streaming canvas editors, intent-driven direct manipulation, visible probabilistic confidence rings, and instantaneous reversible time-travel debugging.
03 / Research & Process
- Systematic literature review of modern Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and LLM latency research
- Engineering 6 working browser prototypes exploring different token-streaming patterns
- Weekly critique sessions with senior interaction designers and ML research engineers
- Public write-ups and viral demo releases exploring failure states as creative material
04 / Key Design Decisions
- A canvas workspace where text doesn't dump into a chat bubble, but streams dynamically into contextual blocks.
- A transparent 'Why this response' inspector that surfaces citation provenance and token certainty.
- An atomic undo engine: every AI generation has a branched timeline that can be rewound or forked.
- Graceful degradation: visual cues that communicate model ambiguity before the user relies on a hallucinated premise.
Reflection & What Was Learned
AI interfaces must never pretend to be infallible magic. People trust and utilize systems far more effectively when the interface is radically honest about uncertainty, attribution, and model limits.