Losing Control, Finding Craft: How to UX in a Non-Deterministic Future

The AI era is here, and you've probably felt all three of these at once: excited, overwhelmed, and quietly anxious. This talk is not another tour of new AI tools and workflows, you already have enough homework. It's a talk about what UX is when the interface stops being something we draw.

We've moved from CLI to GUI to chatbots, and now to autonomous loops, where AI isn't a text box in a side drawer but an agent executing multi-step work in the background.

The Shift. What fundamentally changed about the material we design with, and why our old mental models no longer hold.

The Framework. A new interaction grammar for autonomous systems, built around observability and steerability.

The Craft. How to put that grammar to work in your own practice, starting with your very next project.

So: Is losing control over static pixels the decline of UX? I don't think so. But the UX we need tomorrow is not the UX most of us are doing today.