Text is an infinitely flexible UI, but it takes time to consume.
- Text is an infinitely flexible UI, but it takes time to consume.
- It used to be that software couldn't produce text, so UIs had spatial metaphors.
- These happened to work well with how our brains work, allowing us to absorb a lot more all at once.
- But LLMs made text interfaces possible.
- Text is infinitely flexible, but it takes time to scan and consume.
- The dreaded "wall of text."
- We're enamored of text-primary interfaces today because it's a new party trick and it's flexible, but the real value will be generative UIs.