What Is Agentic UX? A Practical Guide for Product Designers
Agentic UX is the design of experiences in which a system carries out work toward a user's goal. It covers delegation, scope, visibility, intervention, and…
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Agentic UX is the design of experiences in which a system carries out work toward a user's goal. It covers delegation, scope, visibility, intervention, and…
Use undo for reversible work, approval before consequential delegated actions, and confirmation when the user needs to verify a specific commitment. Repeated…
Plan for idle, input collection, processing, partial output, completed output, uncertainty, failure, and recovery. These are a design checklist, not a universal…
Help users express the task, relevant context, constraints, and desired output without requiring them to master prompt jargon. Examples, editable starting…
Ask for approval when an action is consequential, difficult to reverse, or outside the user's established permission. Put the actual proposed change and its…
Measure whether delegated tasks finish correctly, how much supervision they require, and how costly failures are to recover from. Pair completion and correction…
Show which stage of work is happening and whether the user can continue, cancel, or return later. Use a time estimate only when the system can support it;…
Plan for a range of possible outputs rather than one ideal response. Keep interaction rules predictable even when the generated content varies: users still need…
Teach the first useful task with a realistic example, then explain the limits at the moment they matter. Users should understand required inputs, expected…
Connect each important claim to the specific source that supports it. Make the source easy to open, distinguish retrieved evidence from generated interpretation,…
Start with the agent's authority, not its chat box. Define allowed actions, permission boundaries, approval points, and recovery paths before designing the…
Conversational UX focuses on an exchange of messages. Agentic UX also handles delegated work: what the system may access, which actions it may take, how progress…
Design AI around a useful task, a clear boundary of responsibility, and recoverable outcomes. The interface must explain what the system can do, show when it is…
Help people judge when to rely on an AI feature. Show its scope and limitations, connect important claims to evidence, and make correction and recovery available…
Request access when its purpose becomes clear, limit it to the task, and show how to revoke it. Separate permission to read information from permission to change…
Make remembered information visible, editable, and removable. Distinguish information used in this conversation from information retained across sessions, and…
Explain enough for the user to judge the next decision: what information was used, what limits apply, and how to challenge the result. Offer deeper detail on…
An AI error needs a recovery path, not just an apology. Preserve the user's work, identify which outputs or actions are affected, and offer a specific…
Explain what is known, what remains uncertain, and what the user can do next. A confidence percentage is useful only when its meaning is understood and its…
Give users a clear handoff: define the goal, preview consequential actions, show progress, and provide a way to interrupt or recover. The right control depends…
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