?? Please enjoy this fun AI-powered Sentient Design demo I made. It’s a radically adaptive interface called Sentient Scenes—a UI that transforms its style, mood, and behavior in response to your prompt.
Sentient Scenes features an adventurous little square as hero and protagonist. You describe a scene—anything from “underwater adventure” to “Miami Vice” to “computer glitch"—and the interface transforms in response. The square character “acts” the scene, and the scenery adapts, too: the colors, typography, mood, and behavior of the interface all shift to match whatever scenario you name.
Request a ballet scene, and the square twirls gracefully. Ask for a haunted house, and it jitters nervously. Each prompt creates a unique, ephemeral scene for just that moment, completely bending to your vibe.
Try it here: https://lnkd.in/eUqse9A2
Github: https://lnkd.in/eQ-AdtEg
“Making of”: https://lnkd.in/eu3DwYgA
This was a Big Medium side project that we made to explore and teach a few Sentient Design themes and opportunities for Big Medium’s AI product-design practice:
1. Intelligent interfaces beyond chat. Instead of creating ever more chatbots, we seek to embed intelligence within the interface itself. For this project, our goal was to create a canvas whose style, mood, and manner adapt based on user intent. Instead of an experience for talking about a scene, the experience becomes the scene you describe.
2. Personality without anthropomorphism. We’re interested in establishing presence without aping human behavior. Here, we deployed simple animation to suggest personality without pretending to be human.
3. Awareness of context and intent: More than just following commands, we want to create systems that infer what you mean. Here, the system understands your prompt’s emotional and thematic qualities—not just its literal meaning.
4. Open-ended experiences within constraints. We want to marry the open-endedness of chat within grounded experiences defined by simple technical boundaries. For this project, the result is a generator of simple scenes that feel similar but are also totally divergent.
Sentient Scenes may be playful, but its possibilities are serious. If you’re intrigued, you might enjoy this write-up of how we built this thing—and how it points to emerging new process for product designers:
https://lnkd.in/eu3DwYgA
