Chapter 05 · Principles

AI-Native Principles

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AI-native design is not adding a chatbot to your product. These principles help you think about what it means to design products where intelligence is load-bearing — not decorative.

Prompt patterns in this chapter

Selected prompt

For this AI feature, what is the artifact the user walks away with? Is it a document, a plan, a recommendation, a comparison? If there is no artifact, what does the user do after the conversation ends?

Use when

Evaluating a new AI feature or reviewing an existing AI product.

Output format

List of candidate artifact types and what each enables.

Sources & further reading

  1. Artifacts as interaction outputs Coyne, R. (1995). Designing Information Technology. MIT Press.
  2. AI output design Google PAIR Guidebook (2019). People + AI Research.

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