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Oliver Kartak
Oliver Kartak
Oliver
Kartak
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University of Applied Arts
Designer, Artist, Researcher & Professor
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Oliver Kartak
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For 30 years, websites worked the same way – until now.
Every website you've used in the last thirty years follows the same interaction logic: menus, breadcrumbs, hierarchies. This project removes all of it and builds the first LLM-powered university website where conversation and visual browsing operate as equal navigation methods.
Prospective students ask what they want to know and receive answers drawn from actual program content, with browsable visual material embedded in responses.
The talk covers what happens when you take away every navigation element users have relied on for decades — how people orient themselves, how conversation and browsing coexist on every page, and what building the first implementation reveals for anyone designing with AI.
This session is for you if you're designing with AI or about to be, and you suspect that bolting a chatbot onto an existing interface isn't the answer. Whether you're a UX designer, product designer, or researcher, if you've wondered what happens when AI isn't an add-on but the foundation of how people navigate information, this talk shows what that looks like in practice and the core design principles behind it.
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September 17, 2026 2:55 PM
September 17, 2026 3:25 PM
Europe/Vienna
For 30 years, websites worked the same way – until now.
Every website you've used in the last thirty years follows the same interaction logic: menus, breadcrumbs, hierarchies. This project removes all of it and builds the first LLM-powered university website where conversation and visual browsing operate as equal navigation methods.
Prospective students ask what they want to know and receive answers drawn from actual program content, with browsable visual material embedded in responses.
The talk covers what happens when you take away every navigation element users have relied on for decades — how people orient themselves, how conversation and browsing coexist on every page, and what building the first implementation reveals for anyone designing with AI.
This session is for you if you're designing with AI or about to be, and you suspect that bolting a chatbot onto an existing interface isn't the answer. Whether you're a UX designer, product designer, or researcher, if you've wondered what happens when AI isn't an add-on but the foundation of how people navigate information, this talk shows what that looks like in practice and the core design principles behind it.
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