Emerging UX patterns beyond the chatbot
Pablo Stanley at UX Brighton 2024
About this talk
Pablo will share his experience designing AI-powered tools.
We’ll look at key UI/UX patterns that help users interact with AI in a natural way – going beyond just using a chatbot.
We’ll learn about simple and effective flows that make AI features easy to use.
This talk is for teams who want to make AI tools more user-friendly and bridge the gap between humans and the little robots powering our apps.
About Pablo
Pablo Stanley is a Latin designer based in Mexico. He is the co-founder and CEO at Musho & Lummi — AI design tools aimed at unlocking people’s creativity. Previously, he co-founded Carbon Health and Blush, and held roles as a staff designer at Lyft and lead designer at InVision.
Pablo gives talks and workshops around the world on product design, animation, illustration systems, storytelling, accessibility, behavioral economics, challenges of being a designer, doodling, and the art of comics.
He has a YouTube channel called Sketch Together, where he shares design tutorials, livestreams, critiques, and other fun stuff. Pablo also hosts various podcasts, including ‘Diseño Cha Cha Cha’, which features interviews with Latinxs in the tech industry. He’s the doodler behind Open Peeps, Avataaars, Humaaans, Open Doodles, Bottts, and Buttsss.
Moreover, Pablo is a talented writer and illustrator, known for his comic series ‘The Design Team’, portraying the lives of startup designers.
In his latest endeavor, Pablo aims to share his wealth of experience and passion by creating design courses for emerging designers.
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Books, research, ideas and people referenced in this talk.
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Projects and resources
- Lummi05:31Lummi is Pablo's human-curated gallery of AI-generated stock photos, illustrations and 3D renders.
- ChatGPT13:17ChatGPT is used as the example of an AI-first app that showed Pablo what these systems could do.
- Midjourney13:25Midjourney is identified as a tool for generating artwork.
- Runway25:19Runway is used as an example of a video tool that shows users examples of what an AI system can do.
- Perplexity25:29Perplexity is used as an example of a web-connected AI product that offers context-aware suggestions.
- Descript30:39Descript is praised as a video editor whose specific AI actions are exposed as buttons instead of one large text input.
- Claude29:49Claude is cited for letting users add documents and photos and for exposing a system prompt in its workbench.
Concepts
- Artificial general intelligence14:34Artificial general intelligence is defined as AI that can handle many different tasks with flexibility and autonomy like a human.



