Summary
April 26, 2024

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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