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Designing AI Interfaces: Design Principles for Creative and Autonomous AI
Author(s): Louise Macfadyen (Author)
- Publisher finelybook 出版社: O’Reilly Media
- Publication Date 出版日期: April 21, 2026
- Edition 版本: 1st
- Language 语言: English
- Print length 页数: 200 pages
- ASIN: B0FYC7XRP7
- ISBN-13: 9798341639829
Book Description
Designing AI Interfaces is a practical, design-first guide for product teams building with large language models and autonomous systems.
As artificial intelligence becomes central to modern product design, UX professionals must adapt their toolkits to meet new demands. In Designing AI Interfaces, senior product designer Louise Macfadyen offers a timely, practice-oriented guide for building intuitive, ethical, and effective user experiences with large language models (LLMs) and autonomous AI systems. From content moderation to interruptibility, this book presents actionable design patterns for today’s most advanced AI interactions–with clear technical insights to help designers understand how AI systems process inputs, generate outputs, and make decisions on users’ behalf.
Written specifically for navigating the AI transition, this book provides concrete strategies for managing risk, enabling transparency, and fostering user trust in increasingly agentic systems. Readers will learn how to enable users to steer and shape AI responses in real time, incorporate ethical and UX principles into actionable design strategies, and navigate trade-offs in autonomy and control–all while gaining fluency in key AI concepts to collaborate more effectively with engineering teams.
- Gain an applicable mental model for how AI systems reason, process and act, and how they’re experienced by users
- Design effective and ethical interfaces for LLMs and AI agents
- Apply best-practice patterns for content warnings, permissions, and oversight
- Collaborate confidently with engineering and product teams
- Evaluate your org’s AI maturity and advocate for responsible implementation
Editorial Reviews
Editorial Reviews
Review
—John Maeda, VP Engineering, Microsoft AI & Author of ‘How To Speak Machine’
“There’s a book that needed to be written about this moment in AI design […] a practitioner’s book, written by someone who understands both the technology and the people who have to use it, for teams who are trying to build things that actually work. This is that book.”
– Dan Saffer, Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
Designing AI Interfaces fills a real gap.While most AI content focuses on capability, Louise Macfadyen focuses on people and that shift in perspective is what makes this book valuable. The frameworks for thinking about inputs, computation, and outputs give designers a practical foundation for work that felt impossibly slippery, until now. Anyone building AI products and experiences will finish this book with clearer thinking and better tools for advocating for the user.
– David Hoang, VP & Head of Design, AI at Atlassian
About the Author
She began experimenting with code at age eleven, running Neopets fan-fiction forums with friends, and later earned a BA in Literature from Queen Mary, University of London.
Today, Louise specializes in AI and emerging technology. At Microsoft, she led the creation of the company’s first Agentic AI design system, shaping interaction patterns for autonomous systems across products. At Google, she led the Material Design 3 library, now used by over one million designers and developers worldwide.
Alongside her industry work, Louise explores how technology shapes culture through visualization, archiving, and writing, and is a co-host of Away From Keyboard, a podcast about the history of the internet.
