AIAI AgentProduct DesignProduct DesignerUX

Nobody asked for the sparkle button

Products ship with the same AI panel; people hunt for the off switch, and spend has outrun returns. Build features with AI, not AI features.

Jon Sabutis

13 min read6 hours ago

Press enter or click to view image in full size Illustration by Jon Sabutis, built in HTML and CSS

Open any product you pay for and look at the top right corner. There is a sparkle. Behind it is a panel that slides in from the right, says “Ask anything”, and offers three suggestions you did not ask for. Close it and it comes back after the next update, sometimes with a new name.

I should be the last person to complain. I write code with AI every working day. When I built 131 variations of one button to study hover feedback, a model wrote most of them. My design files are generated from code that AI wrote.…