Design Patterns For AI Interfaces
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- Vitaly Friedman
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- 🍵 Tea, coffee, snacks and drinks during the whole day
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Workshop includes:
Full-day workshop • Thursday, September 11, 2025.
As we all are exploring ways to include AI in our products, too often we rely on a good old-fashioned conversational UI to bring AI to life. However, this experience is often painfully slow, the responses are generic and users have to meticulously explain to Gemini, Chat-GPT and others just what exactly they need — over and over and over again.
In this workshop, we’ll explore new design patterns for better AI experiences, with daemons, clustering, style lenses, structured presets and templates, dynamic editing, temperature knobs and everything in-between! The workshop isn’t about how to use Midjourney, Chat-GPT etc., but rather how to design better AI experiences.
Here’s What You Should Be Expecting:
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Inspiring & Inclusive
A full day of teaching in a friendly, inclusive group
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Interactive & Practical
Plenty of time for practice & feedback
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Hands-on exercises
With 1:1 reviews by Vitaly
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Cooperate
Learn from your teacher and other attendees
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Dedicated Q&A time
To ask all your questions
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Digital Smashing Certificate
A well-deserved reward for your work
€599
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We’ll explore how we can help users find answers and get work done better and faster — with better scoping, style lenses, clustering, recommendations, feedback loop and plenty of other interaction patterns.
We’ll Cover
- Why classic chatbot experience is poor and harmful,
- How to help users specify their intent more precisely,
- How to support user in refinement journey with daemons, style presets, temperature knobs,
- How to turn AI’s static output in a dynamic and responsive interface,
- How to help users scope generated output based on their interests and preferences,
- How to use clustering and dynamic views to help users explore data from various perspectives,
- How to establish structured templates and partially pre-fill them by AI,
- How to consider accessibility and sustainability in AI interactions,
- How to help users develop trust and confidence for AI interfaces.
This isn’t a workshop about how to use Midjourney, Chat-GPT and other AI tools, but rather how to design better AI interfaces that don’t feel too generic and slow to interact with.
You’ll leave the workshop with a toolbox of practical techniques and design patterns to apply for your projects right away. This isn’t a workshop on how to use AI to design, but how to apply design patterns and design process to help your users make the most out of your AI systems.
Who is this workshop for?
This workshop is for interface designers, front-end designers and developers who’d love to learn about to design interfaces that let users make the most out of your AI systems. You’ll walk away with a toolbox of techniques and examples of doing things well — in your product, website, desktop app or mobile app.
What Hardware/software Do I Need To Bring?
You’ll need to bring a lot of creativity with your preferred coffee mug. We’ll be spending a lot of time drawing, sketching, designing and thinking. Don’t forget to bring your laptop too!
Be ready to challenge your general view of the AI design process and how our interface should look like. You’ll need a lot of sleep reserves since it’s going to be a packed day. Bring a lot of attention to detail and non-standard thinking to this one! ;-)
About Vitaly Friedman
Vitaly loves beautiful content and does not give up easily. Born in Minsk, Belarus, he moved to Germany in 1999 where he studied computer science and mathematics. While writing algebra proofs and preparing for software engineering at nights in the kitchen, at the same time he discovered passion for typography, UX and writing.
His curiosity drove him from interface design to front-end to performance optimization to accessibility and back to user experience over all the years.
Time & Location
This full-day workshop will take place the day after SmashingConf. The workshop will be running from 9:30 AM to 5:30 PM on Thursday, September 11.
Schedule for Thursday, September 11
9:00 AM – Doors open, Registration
9:30 AM – Introduction & Kick-off
11:00 AM – Coffee Break
1:00 PM – Lunch
2:00 PM – Afternoon Session
3:30 PM – Coffee Break
5:30 PM – The End
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€599
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🎪 Save up to 25% on this workshop with a Smashing Membership.