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The Feed & The Thread - August 28, 2026
We’re moving past the hype of AI as a conversational partner to tackle the mechanical failures of bolting chat windows onto complex workspaces. Drawing on Dan Saffer’s call for intelligent UI widgets and Patrick Neeman’s critique of our cinematic expectations, we argue that typing is inefficient for serious tasks and that we need parallel interactions like looking and pointing instead. The thread ties this together by examining how designers often prioritize visual novelty over functional clarity, leaving users with pretty but unusable interfaces.
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