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- Every era introduces design idioms unique to its challenges, some of which become lasting interaction paradigms, such as the hamburger menu from mobile era.
- The sparkle emoji has become a symbol for AI, alongside rainbow colors, marking a new aesthetic connotation.
- AI-specific patterns like streaming text and shimmering text are emerging, with the latter being repurposed to indicate asynchronous tasks.
- AI apps often use tiny icons, clashing with system-level design in desktop apps, raising questions about future interface trends.
- Other emerging AI aesthetics include beige/cream colors, orange accents, serif typefaces, and non-deterministic UI controls like whack-a-mole toggles.
- The article ponders which AI-born aesthetics will become lasting parts of software interaction paradigms.