# Thinking Outside The Box: Digital Design In The AI Era

DevFeed: [Thinking Outside The Box: Digital Design In The AI Era](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/thinking-outside-the-box-digital-design-in-the-ai-era-4302.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://smashingmagazine.com/2026/07/digital-design-ai-era/>)

Author: hello@smashingmagazine.com (Oleksii Hrzhehorzhevskyi)

Published: 2026-07-28T10:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Articles on Smashing Magazine -- For Web Designers And Developers](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/articles-on-smashing-magazine-for-web-designers-and-developers.md>)

Topics: [AI Chat](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-chat.md>)

Tags: [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [ai-models](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-models.md>), [chatgpt](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/chatgpt.md>), [claude](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/claude.md>), [creativity](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/creativity.md>), [design](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/design.md>), [digital-art](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/digital-art.md>), [tools](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tools.md>)

## AI overview

An article about designing AI assistants beyond the familiar conversational text box, with an emphasis on personality, accessibility, and keeping people central to the experience.

## Source excerpt

Many of the AI tools we interact with take the form of text boxes. But what if there was a different way to interact with AI? Oleksii Hrzhehorzhevskyi explores a different approach to creating a new AI assistant and how designers can navigate the field as AI continues to change it.