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Form Factors for Your New AI Coworkers

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Explore how to design user experiences for AI systems by reimagining them as collaborative coworkers rather than traditional tools in this 16-minute conference talk. Discover four main categories of AI interaction patterns: invisible, ambient, inline, and conversational, with practical examples from Flatfile's production implementations at Fortune 500 companies. Learn about novel UX approaches including AI cursors, forward-leaning chat paradigms, and tool interfaces that move beyond conventional design thinking. Examine the shift from "helicopter parent" to "character coach" mentalities in AI design, and understand concepts like "feeling the material of AI" and "finding the grain in AI design." Gain insights into courting emergence in AI systems through real-world examples of dataset combination, report generation, and human intervention suggestions. See demonstrations of cutting-edge features like the "chat tuner" tool and "auto-complete" for data transformations, while exploring both current production work and speculative design explorations that offer a vision for the future of AI-native user experiences.

Syllabus

00:25 Design Engineering: Form Factors for your new AI coworkers
01:04 Four main categories of AI stack: invisible, ambient, inline, and conversational
02:14 Invisible AI: Personalized demos
03:06 Ambient AI: Analyzing data for opportunities
03:10 Inline AI: Direct data manipulation
03:46 Shifting from helicopter parent to character coach
04:32 The "chat tuner" tool
05:20 Feeling the material of AI
08:20 Finding the grain in AI design
11:08 Courting emergence
11:48 Example of emergence: Combining datasets and generating reports
12:37 Example of emergence: Suggesting human intervention
14:09 Eyes on the future
14:27 "Auto-complete" for data transformations

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