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10 Interface Ideas for Chat Applications
A collection of 10 interaction ideas for chat UIs on mobile — exploring beyond the linear message-bubble convention. Written days before ChatGPT's launch, prescient given how central chat interfaces became for AI products.
The Biggest Bottleneck for LLM Startups Is UX
The argument that UX and UI talent was the primary constraint on LLM startups in late 2022 — not model quality or API access, but the ability to build interfaces that made AI capabilities usable. A claim that proved prescient: the best early AI products were product/design wins as much as technical ones.
And You Will Know Us by the Company We Keep
Eugene Wei analyzes how your social circle functions as a status signal and how social networks exploit this — the people around you communicate who you are before you say a word. Sharp thinking on why social product design is fundamentally about group dynamics, not individual features.
All Dashboards Should be Feeds
Anil Dash's 2013 argument that dashboards should be replaced by feeds — because feeds are scannable, show change over time, and can be subscribed to, while dashboards require active navigation and miss temporal context. A prescient critique of how enterprise analytics was being designed.
Great Machine Learning Products
O'Reilly Radar's 2012 analysis of what distinguishes great machine learning products from mediocre ones — written during the pre-deep-learning ML era when practitioners were figuring out how to ship ML-powered features users would actually trust and use.
Small By Design: Path, Familyleaf, and Pair
NYT's coverage of small-by-design social networks like Path, Familyleaf, and Pair in 2012 — products deliberately capping user counts to reflect cognitive limits on meaningful relationships. A reaction to Facebook's ambient mass-friend model.