Token Budgets: A UX Pattern for AI Coding Spend
Expose context costs, default to cheap deterministic steps, and make savings legible: a token-budget pattern for AI coding tools.
UX Patterns
Design release-date answers that show confirmed, rumored, and unknown instead of guessing a date
A trustworthy assistant should answer a release-date question with a date-state, a source, and a next action, not a confident guess.
Design the AI Outage State: Name the Failure, Show What Still Works, and Give Users a Next Step
A clear degraded-service contract tells users what is broken, what still works, and what to do next.
Design AI confirmation flows that earn trust without making users click through danger
Stop stacking warnings by building risk-tiered confirmations that show what an agent will do, why, how to undo it, and when a human should take over.
Advertisement