# How AI Interfaces and Prompts Are Changing User Experience Design

DevFeed: [How AI Interfaces and Prompts Are Changing User Experience Design](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/the-good-prompt-35071.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://medium.com/gumgum-tech/the-good-prompt-805da34a89c6?source=rss----d4c1dee0f87b---4>)

Author: Chris Jones

Published: 2025-08-04T11:30:11Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [GumGum](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/gumgum.md>)

Topics: [prompt](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/prompt.md>), [ui](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ui.md>), [User interface design](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ui-design.md>), [User experience (UX)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ux.md>), [AI Models](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-models.md>), [Open Source Models & Datasets](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source-models-datasets.md>)

Tags: [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [ai-models](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-models.md>), [interface](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/interface.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [product-design](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/product-design.md>), [prompt](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/prompt.md>), [ui](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ui.md>), [ux](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ux.md>)

## AI overview

This opinion article considers how AI may change interface and user experience design. It argues that as powerful models become widely available, well-designed interfaces and conversational prompting can distinguish products and improve the quality of AI-generated results.

## Source excerpt

AI spells like a designer! Let's jump straight in here. Mobile arrived with its associated apps, and we adapted -- 'mobile-first' for the win. Social media, with its infinity (doom) scroll, changed a few habits too; ask any bored teenager. Big things come along, and we expect a paradigm shift in the UI. And yes, our screens and habits have changed, but for the most part, the interactions still feel familiar. So, will this time be different? Sure, AI is helping us work faster, smarter. But the question for me, as a Product Designer, is how it will change the nature of design itself. A wise colleague recently shared a thought that hit a chord: with open-source AI models becoming incredibly powerful, fast, and (relatively) cheap, does the true value lie in the models themselves, or in the interfaces we use to interact with them? For all its fantasia, AI is already mundane. Predictive text on your phone -- it's a form of AI we use dozens of times a day without a second thought. As AI becomes this commonplace, the real opportunity shifts. If powerful models are ten-a-penny, then an elegant, well-thought-out user interface is an opportunity to elevate one product above another. Designing for a Conversation So what does that AI interface look like? A simple text box is often a familiar starting point. It isn't the ultimate UX, but we shouldn't forget that Google did alright by sticking one in the middle of a blank screen. Removing all the noise and letting the results be the magic is a powerful foundation. The thing is, AI may start with a text box, but it expects us to behave differently. For the past two decades, search engines have trained us to be terse -- to use keywords, not sentences. AI asks us to unlearn that habit entirely. It wants to converse. I treat my interactions with AI as a back-and-forth collaboration; the real breakthrough comes when you stop issuing commands. We all feel the pain of a bad prompt as it delivers generic, lifeless results that drive you away