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World Congress 2026 Europe - Virtual Stage • Jul 2, 2026 • Session details

Designing AI-first products: When the interface is no longer the product

Ekaterina Streltsova

Without persistent memory, an AI system is just a new employee starting fresh every day. Learn to design invisible, agentic software where trust replaces the traditional user interface.

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#1 about 5 min

Shifting from deterministic interfaces to non-deterministic surfaces

Traditional software relies on deterministic click-based interfaces, whereas AI-first products utilize dynamic reasoning surfaces to interpret user goals.

#2 about 3 min

Understanding the technical stack of an AI reasoning system

The AI product stack requires orchestrating user intent, language models, memory, and actionable tools rather than just interface components.

#3 about 4 min

Designing user experiences without traditional user interfaces

Minimizing UI visibility necessitates mastering clarity, conversational flow, progressive disclosure, feedback loops, graceful failure, and user agency.

#4 about 4 min

Building trust and transparency into AI interactions

Unpredictable model failures require surfacing reasoning, calibrating confidence, keeping humans in the loop, and providing auditable trails to maintain user trust.

#5 about 4 min

Analyzing real-world patterns in successful AI products

Case studies from GitHub Copilot, Notion, Cursor, and Perplexity demonstrate how ambient assistance and co-authoring models augment rather than replace human ownership.

#6 about 4 min

Adapting product design for proactive and agentic AI

The transition to agentic systems shifts design focus from navigating predefined flows to defining objectives, handling uncertainty, and managing autonomous delegation.

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The shift from predictable UX to adaptive AI experiences

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Transitioning from AI co-pilots to AI-native products

Jordan Tigani Jordan Tigani · World Congress 2026 Europe

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Designing user experiences defensively against AI application failures

Krzysztof Cieślak Krzysztof Cieślak · World Congress 2024

3:46 min

Designing AI interfaces for user autonomy and control

Christoph Bräunlein Christoph Bräunlein +3 · World Congress 2025

4:08 min

Transitioning software engineering teams to AI-native development workflows

Florian Deter Florian Deter +4 · World Congress 2026 Europe

2:02 min

Redefining the software architect role for AI pipelines

Ingo Eichhorst Ingo Eichhorst · World Congress 2026 Europe

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