UI/UX For LLMs

An early take, some issues and maybe even solutions.

I don’t know about you, but I find my interactions with LLMs, ( mostly chatGPT and bard ) to be a mix of good and bad, but mostly a bit cumbersome and maybe not as useful as they could be, some of it comes from the nature of the chat based AIs, but there’s also some UI (User Interaction) and UX ( User Experience ) issues that might be at fault, in any case this is a brief look at LLMs from the design point of view….

⚠️ Even as I am typing this there are changes rolling out for these and 
other LLMs, see further below for a specific case, so things will surely 
change and this article will mostly serve for the historical records.

Let’s first take a look at their UIs :

Google’s bard is a clear case of “you can copy my homework but change it a bit so it’s not obvious you copied” :

The current LLM UI/UX prototype consists of a prompt input fixed/floating/parked at the bottom, the generated content on…