What’s New — AI UX Digests #3

In this issue:

• Why the answer bubble is the wrong container for serious AI work

• 3 prompts for briefs, errors, and microcopy

• 2 skills for prototyping and evals

Chat is fine when you’re talking. It’s a terrible filing cabinet. Code, docs, tables, anything you need next Tuesday shouldn’t live in a scroll you can’t edit or share cleanly.

Put the durable work in an artifact. Let people refine that object without restarting the thread.

I keep coming back to this because so many AI products still treat the transcript as the product. It isn’t.

→ How to Design AI Output, Artifacts & Refinement UX
→ Compare output & artifacts

• AI Feature Design Brief. Write the behavior, trust, and controls before you open Figma.

• AI Error Handling UX. Map what breaks, how users recover, and what the UI says when the model fails.

• Microcopy Polish. Fix the vague buttons and empty states that make AI moments feel unfinished.

Prompt library: https://aiuxplayground.com/prompts

• Prototype. Build something throwaway that answers one design question. Then throw it away.

• AI Evals. Rubrics and pass/fail cases, so “good” stops meaning “looked fine in the demo.”

More skills: https://aiuxplayground.com/skills

That’s it for this week. If your product still traps useful work in a chat scroll, fix the container first. Then run one of the prompts on a feature you’re actually shipping.

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