An AI interaction pattern library 模式

The patterns of AI, from ChatGPT to Doubao.

AIUX.tools names and documents the interaction patterns of the AI era — with examples from the products you use daily and the billion-user Chinese frontier every other library misses. Real flows, why it works, what to steal, what to skip.

Browse the library The watchlist · 48 products

Six categories 分类

Organized by what the user is doing

02 patterns 启

Invoke

Getting started and steering: how products turn a blank box into a beginning.

03 patterns 观

Observe

Watching AI work: reasoning, progress, live workspaces, and system honesty under load.

01 patterns 证

Verify

Trust and grounding: how claims get sourced, checked, and made inspectable.

03 patterns 控

Control

Agent oversight: plans, permissions, interruption, and the cost of autonomy.

01 patterns 忆

Remember

Memory and personalization: what the AI keeps, and who's in charge of it.

01 patterns 易

Transact

AI meets commerce and services: when the conversation becomes the storefront.

Named here first 首命名

Patterns the field hadn't named yet

易

In-chat Commerce

The conversation becomes the storefront — decide, order, and track without leaving the thread.

emerging 观

Live Viewport

A window into the agent's workspace — watch it browse, click, and build in real time.

emerging 观

Scarcity States

Honest UX for the moment the AI runs out — of capacity, quota, or compute.

emerging

Where a canonical name exists — Shape of AI, aiverse, PAIR — we cite it. New names only for the genuinely unnamed.

Field notes 现刊

Now publishing

Doubao became a shopping agent — and chose not to hold your wallet

This week

Kimi treats reading as the product

This week

Who approves the agent? China's two answers

Next week

Teardowns publish first on LinkedIn/X, then archive here with extracted patterns.

Method 方法

Tracked by machine, judged by a human

01 监测

Watch

A pipeline monitors 48 AI products across CN + US app stores and changelogs, every week.

02 筛选

Triage

Version bumps and diffs get triaged for one thing only: did an interaction pattern change?

03 捕捉

Capture

Real flows, real devices, original UI — including the failure states nobody screenshots.

04 拆解

Teardown

Analysis over eye-candy: why it works, what to steal, what shouldn’t travel.