The prompt is not an interface

👤 Joshua Leigh
📅 2026-05-07

The most advanced artificial intelligence systems in history now ask us to communicate through a blinking cursor in an empty text box.We have, in the most literal sense, gone backwards.For the last forty years, the entire trajectory of interaction design has been a movement away from the command line and toward direct manipulation. We moved from typing instructions to pointing, clicking, … Full Product UX article at UX Collective »

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