AI UX design patterns — big tech frameworks for designing AI experiences¶
Insight: Major technology companies have published comprehensive frameworks for designing AI experiences that product designers can use today: IBM's Carbon for AI uses light as a visual metaphor to distinguish AI-generated content; Google's PAIR Guidebook covers user needs, success metrics, and hallucination handling; Microsoft's HAX Toolkit provides guidelines for human-AI interaction; SAP publishes AI-specific component patterns and guidelines.
Detail: Carbon for AI provides AI-specific tokens, styling guidelines, and component patterns for building trust through transparency about AI involvement. PAIR includes worksheets for problem framing updated for generative AI. These resources provide shared vocabulary for cross-functional conversations about AI product features.
Sources
- Niki Tisza — "AI UX Design Patterns" (2025-12-26)