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Designing for AI Means Designing Like it's 1999
The unsettled state of AI design mirrors the early web of 1999 — standards still shifting, no killer app yet, business models unproven. Chat is today's default interface but likely a placeholder, since 95% of generative-AI pilots still deliver no measurable business impact. Designers who thrive will treat this moment as an invitation to invent new conventions, just as their predecessors did in that earlier era.
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