Summary

Pinch to summarize

In Arc, a playful pinch interaction lets you quickly distill any webpage into a brief summary, capturing the essence of the content in moments.

The image depicts a two-panel interface design on a pink to purple gradient. The left panel resembles a web browser displaying a prompt for email updates. The right panel shows a summary of the website's content about human-AI interaction, key UX insights, and transparency. A curved arrow between the panels suggests content summarization with the phrase "Summarizing for you..." below.
Human needs

When browsing the internet, I want to quickly understand the most important points of a page without having to read the entire article.

AI-UX patterns
Considerations
  • Balancing Playful Interactions: Using playful interactions can enhance people's experiences, but they shouldn't be the sole method since individuals have varying levels of technological literacy.
  • Simplifying Complex Information: Applications will increasingly incorporate features to summarize, personalize or simplify complex information into easy-to-understand language.
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Interactive writing partners

AI collaboration agents can act as writing partners that assist people by enhancing their content through transparent, easily understandable suggestions, while respecting the original input.

Language as a tangible material

Textual information often misses intuitive cues for understanding relationships between ideas. AI can clarify these connections, making complex information easier to grasp quickly.

Navigate the space

Ordering content along different interpretable dimensions, like style or similarity, makes it navigable on x and y axes facilitating exploration and discovery of relationships between the data.

Visual grounding

Using the source input as ground truth will help trust the system and makes it easy to interpret its process and what might have gone wrong.

Proactive agents

Proactive agents can autonomously initiate conversations and actions based on previous interactions and context providing timely and relevant assistance.

Describe processes

AI actions often take time to complete. To improve user experience, use descriptions of what is happening combined with basic animations that represent different types of actions.