Create new experiences that crackle with awareness and agency, adapting to your users in the moment. These are intelligent interfaces: dashboards that design themselves, apps that manifest on demand, agents that show up as “just another user” in your interface, and much more.

Your session leaders are the authors of the book Sentient Design: Crafting Intelligent Interfaces with AI (which you'll receive complimentary as part of the workshop). Sentient Design maps the landscape of possibility when designers team up with a technology that can make user-facing design decisions in real time. What happens when you weave intelligence into the interface itself? How do you actually do it, and how do roles shift when you do?

In this hands-on workshop, you’ll explore a wide range of newly possible experiences and practical design patterns for AI-powered interfaces. You'll learn the framework and techniques for designing these new experiences responsibly by prototyping an intelligent interface throughout the day.

This session is NOT about tooling, workflow, or design productivity. It’s about using AI as a design material to enable newly possible experiences. What should you make, and why?

You’ll discover this full range of possibilities through four key postures—tools, agents, copilots, and chat—plus a dozen novel experience patterns you can put to use immediately in your daily practice. You’ll get hands-on with models, too, using LLMs to bring your prototype to life by wiring the interface to user intent.