Full-day workshop

Design Patterns For AI Interfaces

with Vitaly Friedman

AI interfaces can go way beyond text prompt In this workshop, we’ll dive into UX guidelines and 100s of real-life examples of AI interfaces. We’ll explore how we can help users find answers and get work done better and faster — with better scoping, style lenses, clustering, recommendations, feedback loop and plenty of other interaction patterns.

May 2025
15th
Graz, Austria
tba
30 spots
available
May 2025
17th
Vienna, Austria
tba
30 Spots
available

About this workshop

You’ll need to bring a lot of creativity. We’ll be spending a lot of time drawing, sketching, designing and thinking. Be ready to challenge your general view of the AI design process and how our interface should look like.

You’ll need a lot of sleep reserves since it’s going to be a packed day. Bring a lot of attention to detail and non-standard thinking to this one!

For who?

This workshop is for interface designers, front-end designers and developers who’d love to learn about to design interfaces that let users make the most out of your AI systems.

You’ll walk away with a toolbox of techniques and examples of doing things well — in your product, website, desktop app or mobile app.

My superpower is that I’m extremely average.

I can almost sense if something isn’t right. I might not be able to point out what exactly is wrong, but if I experience some issues, probably most people will, too.

Vitaly Friedman
UX designer, speaker and founder of the Smashing Magazine

What you'll learn

  • Why classic chatbot experience is poor and harmful
  • How to help users specify their intent more precisely
  • How to support user in refinement journey with daemons, style presets, temperature knobs
  • How to turn AI’s static output in a dynamic and responsive interface,
  • How to help users scope generated output based on their interests and preferences
  • How to use clustering and dynamic views to help users explore data from various perspectives
  • How to establish structured templates and partially pre-fill them by AI,
  • How to consider accessibility and sustainability in AI interactions
  • How to help users develop trust and confidence for AI interfaces

This isn’t a workshop about how to use Midjourney, Chat-GPT and other AI tools, but rather how to design better AI interfaces that don’t feel too generic and slow to interact with.You’ll leave the workshop with a toolbox of practical techniques and design patterns to apply for your projects right away. This isn’t a workshop on how to use AI to design, but how to apply design patterns and design process to help your users make the most out of your AI systems.

Schedule

This is how it’s going to go down.
May 2025
13th / 17th
8.30
30min
Open doors
Grab a coffee and get comfortable.
9.00am
100min
State of AI in 2025

- How AI works under the hood
- How people use AI interfaces
- Frequent interaction patterns
- Drawbacks of text prompts
- Hallucination and memory issues, limitations
- Poor accuracy and reliability concerns
- Trust issues, training data, sustainability issues
- Stereotypes forming and biases
- Product-market-fit-gap with AI
- Where AI excels and where it fails
- AI Vocabulary (RAG systems, model scaling, temperature, context window, word embeddings)
- Word embeddings and neural search
- Agents and Multi-Agents
- Cost of AI models
- AI legislation

10.40am
20min
Coffee break
Recharge your caffeine tank.
11.00am
90min
Design Patterns For AI Interfaces

- Daemons

- Style lenses

- Branches

- Scoping

- Finetuning

- Versioning

- Reverse outlining

- Inline action

- Prompt presets

- Prompt templates

- Human review

- AI Auto-Fill

- Assistants and Copilots

- Temperature Knobs

- Quiet helpers

- Madlibs

- Token layering

- Prompt constructors

- Following up

- Apple picking

- “Thinking” pattern

12.30pm
60min
Lunch break
He who feeds the brain must also fill the stomach.
1.30pm
90min
Ideation For AI Products

- Structured discovery

- Input UX, Output UX, Refinement UX

- Real-life examples of well-designed AI products

- Prioritization: AI capability/value matrix

- User journeys/journey maps in AI world

- Selecting the right AI models

- Input UX

- Output UX

- Refinement UX

- Voice UX (voice and tone mapping, UX writing etc.)

- AI-powered accessibility

- Building trust and confidence

3.00pm
20min
Coffee break
We've got tea too.
3.20pm
100min
Embedding AI In Existing Products + Q&A

- Product-Market fit

- Goals and user needs

- Data collection

- Cleaning and training

- Scope and test suite

- Quiet AI-first

- AI layering

- Refinement

- Sustainability targets

- Measuring success of AI

- What’s next?

5.00pm
Official end of workshop
Start into a well-deserved after-work evening.

Vitaly Friedman

UX designer, speaker and founder of the Smashing Magazine

Vitaly loves beautiful content and does not give up easily. Born in Minsk, Belarus, he studied computer science and mathematics in Germany. While writing algebra proofs and preparing for software engineering at nights in the kitchen, at the same time he discovered passion for typography, interface design and writing. After working as a freelance designer and developer for 6 years, he co-founded Smashing Magazine back in 2006, a leading online magazine for designers and developers. His curiosity drove him from interface design to front-end to performance optimization to accessibility and back to user experience over all the years.

Vitaly is the author, co-author and editor of all Smashing books and a curator of all Smashing Conferences. He currently works as creative lead of Smashing Magazine and front-end/UX consultant in Europe and abroad, working with European Parliament, Haufe-Lexware, Axel-Springer and a few other companies.

Tickets

Here's how you can join us.

Vienna

May 17th
Design patterns for AI interfaces
Full day workshop
Snacks, drinks & lunch
Working materials
€ 450
+vat

Vienna

May 16th
How to measure UX & design impact
Check out event
Full day workshop
Snacks, drinks & lunch
Working materials
€ 450
+vat

Vienna

Combi Ticket

Design patterns for AI interfaces
+
How to measure UX & design impact
Check out event
€ 720
+vat

Graz

May 15th
Design patterns for AI interfaces
Full day workshop
Snacks, drinks & lunch
Working materials
€ 450
+vat

Graz

May 14th
How to measure UX & design impact
Check out event
Full day workshop
Snacks, drinks & lunch
Working materials
€ 450
+vat

Graz

Combi Ticket
Design patterns for AI interfaces
+
How to measure UX & design impact
Check out event
€ 720
+vat