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LukeW | Agent Management Interface Patterns

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As an increasing number of AI applications evolve to agents doing work for people, agent management becomes a critical part of these product's design. How can people start, steer, and stop multiple agents (and subagents) and stay on top of their results? Here's several approaches we've been building and testing. Whenever a new technology emerges, user interfaces go through a balancing act between making the new technology approachable through common patterns and embodying what makes it unique. Make things too different and risk not having an onramp that brings people on board smoothly. Make things too familiar and risk limiting the potential of new capabilities within old models and interactions. As an example, Apple's VisionOS interface notably made use of many desktop and mobile interaction patterns to smooth the transition to spatial computing. But at the same time, they didn't take full advantage of spatial computing's opportunities by boxing limitless 3D interactions within the wi

As an increasing number of AI applications evolve to agents doing work for people, agent management becomes a critical part of these product's design. How can people start, steer, and stop multiple agents (and subagents) and stay on top of their results? Here's several approaches we've been building and testing. Whenever a new technology emerges, user interfaces go through a balancing act between making the new technology approachable through common patterns and embodying what makes it unique. Make things too different and risk not having an onramp that brings people on board smoothly. Make th

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