About
A reference for how AI products actually behave.
AIUX.tools is a pattern library for designing AI interfaces: interaction patterns named, categorized, and documented with real flows and steal/skip analysis — the reference you open when designing an AI feature, not just a gallery you scroll.
The library is fed by a weekly pipeline that watches 48 AI products across app stores and changelogs for one signal: did an interaction pattern change? Coverage deliberately spans the whole landscape — including billion-user products that rarely make it into Western screenshot collections — so patterns are documented from everywhere they actually ship.
Principles
Patterns, not features
A feature is what one product ships. A pattern is what the field is converging on — that’s what gets named and documented.
Cite, don’t fragment
When Shape of AI, aiverse, or PAIR named a pattern first, we use their name and say so. New names only for the genuinely unnamed.
Failure states are content
Errors, loading, rate limits, capacity walls — where AI UX actually differentiates, and where nobody points a camera.
The version history is the asset
Every capture is dated and versioned, never overwritten. How a pattern evolved matters more than how it looks today.
Who
Made by a product designer who works with — and actually uses — the products documented here. Contributions open later this year.
Newsletter
New patterns and product teardowns from across the AI landscape — what to steal, what to skip, from someone who actually uses them.