Design for the AI age

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For decades, interfaces have guided users along predefined roads. Think files and folders, buttons and menus, screens and flows. These familiar structures organize information and provide the comfort of knowing where you are and what's possible.

Design for the AI age Skip to content → Now Craft Design for the AI age Karri Saarinen · April 07, 2025 “Where we’re going, we don’t need roads” — Doc Brown, Back to the Future For decades, interfaces have guided users along predefined roads. Think files and folders, buttons and menus, screens and flows. These familiar structures organize information and provide the comfort of knowing where you are and what’s possible. This understanding of interfaces has shaped my perspective on design throughout my career, leading me to see design as largely deterministic. I could visualize how interactions

Design for the AI age

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