Design Patterns For AI Interfaces

Your instructor: Vitaly Friedman
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Workshop includes:

🔖 Examples to take away
🗣 Interactive sessions
📺 Workshop recordings
🎤 Dedicated Q&A time
🏅 Smashing Certificate

Workshop, 5×2h + Q&A • Tue & Thu, Jan 22 – Feb 26 2026
9:00 – 11:30 AM PT • 18:00 – 20:30 CET • Check your time zone ⏰

As product teams race to include AI in products, they too often rely on a good old-fashioned patterns like an assistant, or a chatbot. However, this experience is often painfully slow, the responses are generic and users have to meticulously explain to AI just what exactly they need — over and over and over again.

In this workshop, we’ll explore shiny 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, ChatGPT etc., but rather how to design better AI products and experiences.

Here’s What You Should Be Expecting:

Interactive live sessions

5 × 2h live sessions

Practical insights

From filters and sorting, to search and autocomplete

Checklists

20 checklists for everything from accordion to maps

Life-time access

To all video recordings and examples

Dedicated Q&A time

To ask all your questions

Smashing Certificate

A well-deserved reward for your work

AI products can go way beyond text prompts and generative interfaces. In this shiny new workshop with Vitaly Friedman, senior UX consultant with the European Parliament and creative lead of Smashing Magazine, we’ll dive into new design patterns, UX guidelines and 100s of real-life examples of AI interfaces.

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.

$350^.00 $450^.00 Register for this workshop → 5 × 2h live sessions + Q&A. Jan 22 – Feb 26.
With all video recordings & slides. Get a ticket.

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We’ll cover:

State of AI in 2026: how people use AI interfaces, main slowdowns and blockers, usability and accessibility issues,
How AI works under the hood and how design choices can shape (or derail) AI output,
AI constraints and limitations: why chatbots don’t work well and what we can use instead,
Everything you need to know about AI to design feasible and viable AI features that people understand, trust, value and use,
High interaction cost of prompt engineering, context awareness, capability awareness and AI discoverability,
Where AI typically lives and how to help people provide better input and make sense of AI output,
How to support decision-making and complex workflows with guardrails, permissions, approval flows and human in the loop,
Why linear customer journeys don’t map well with AI features, and how to design AI loops instead,
Design strategies that build confidence and clarity around AI behaviors and decisions,
How transparency, reasoning traces, and consensus meters increase retention of AI features,
How to signal and label AI-generated content and make it work with human-written content,
How to bring AI into products, from data collection to user flows,
How to design for agentic UX and support people in complex flows and tasks,
How teams measure the quality of AI UX and the actual value for end users.

This isn’t a workshop about how to use Midjourney, ChatGPT and other AI tools, but rather how to design better AI experiences that don’t feel too generic and painfully 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-enhanced products.

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 you need?

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.

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 Friedman loves beautiful content and doesn’t like to give in easily. When he is not writing or speaking at a conference, he’s most probably running front-end/UX workshops and webinars. He loves solving complex UX, front-end and performance problems.

Time & Schedule

This online workshop is split over five weeks. Starting with an optional session on Thursday, January 22, the main workshop sessions will be running from 10:00 AM PT to 12:00 PM PT on Tuesdays from January 27 – February 24.

And if you have questions, there is also an Open Hour available for all your questions every week.

Thu, January 22, 10:00 – 11:00 AM PT (19:00 – 20:00 CET)
Let's get to know each other! (optional)
Tue, January 27, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM PT (19:00 – 21:00 CET)
What Designers Should Know About AI
Thu, January 29, 10:00 – 11:00 AM PT (19:00 – 20:00 CET)
Open Hour (optional)
Tue, February 3, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM PT (19:00 – 21:00 CET)
AI Constraints and Limitations
Thu, February 5, 10:00 – 11:00 AM PT (19:00 – 20:00 CET)
Open Hour (optional)
Tue, February 10, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM PT (19:00 – 21:00 CET)
Designing Better AI Experiences
Thu, February 12, 10:00 – 11:00 AM PT (19:00 – 20:00 CET)
Open Hour (optional)
Tue, February 17, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM PT (19:00 – 21:00 CET)
Designing For Trust and Confidence
Thu, February 19, 10:00 – 11:00 AM PT (19:00 – 20:00 CET)
Open Hour (optional)
Tue, February 24, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM PT (19:00 – 21:00 CET)
AI Design Workflow, From Start to Finish
Thu, February 26, 10:00 – 11:00 AM PT (19:00 – 20:00 CET)
Open Hour (optional)

You can always re-watch the sessions at a more convenient time and follow the workshop at your own pace.