Sharif Shameem pulled together a wishlist of fun ideas for AI-powered applications. Some are useful automations of dreary tasks, while others have a strong Sentient Design vibe of weaving intelligence into the interface itself. It’s a good list if you’re looking for inspiration for new ways to think about how to apply AI as a design material. Some examples:
A writing app that uses the non-player character (NPC) design pattern to embed suggests in comments, like a human user: “A minimalist writing app that lets me write long-form content. A model can also highlight passages and leave me comments in the marginalia. I should be able to set different ‘personas’ to review what I wrote.”
A similar one (emphasis mine): “A minimalist ebook reader that lets me read ebooks, but I can highlight passages and have the model explain things in more depth off to the side. It should also take on the persona of the author. It should feel like an extension of the book and not a separate chat instance.”
LLMs are great at understanding intent and sentiment, so let’s use it to improve our feeds: “Semantic filters for Twitter/X/YouTube. I want to be able to write open-ended filters like “hide any tweet that will likely make me angry” and never have my feed show me rage-bait again. By shaping our feeds we shape ourselves.”
