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The Death of the Button: Why the Best Interface is No Interface
A new wave of "Intent-Driven Design" replaces multi-step point-and-click interfaces with tools that capture a user's goal and execute the steps invisibly. Perplexity AI synthesizes answers instead of ten blue links, Vercel v0 generates full interfaces from a text prompt, and Goblin.tools breaks overwhelming tasks into checklists. This shift rests on contextual goals, generative UI, and agent execution, but risks a loss of control and opaque "black box" decisions needing transparent feedback.
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