HAX Design Library

Interactive collection of the 18 Guidelines for Human-AI Interaction, with design patterns for applying them and examples.

Guideline 2

Guideline 2

Make clear how well the system can do what it can do

Help the user understand how often the AI system may make mistakes.
Guideline 2 > Pattern 2A

Pattern 2A: Match the level of precision in UI communication with the system performance – Language
Guideline 2 > Pattern 2B

Pattern 2B: Match the level of precision in UI communication with the system performance – Numbers
Guideline 2 > Pattern 2C

Pattern 2C: Report system performance information
Guideline 2 > Pattern 2D

Pattern 2D: Provide low performance alerts

Guideline 4

Guideline 4

Show contextually relevant information

Display information relevant to the user’s current task and environment.

Guideline 7

Guideline 7

Support efficient invocation

Make it easy to invoke or request the AI system’s services when needed.

Guideline 8

Guideline 8

Support efficient dismissal

Make it easy to dismiss or ignore undesired AI system services.
Guideline 8 > Example

Siri | G8: Support efficient dismissal

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Guideline 9

Guideline 9

Support efficient correction

Make it easy to edit, refine, or recover when the AI system is wrong.
Guideline 9 > Pattern 9A

Pattern 9A: Switch classification decisions
Guideline 9 > Pattern 9B

Pattern 9B: Rich and detailed edits
Guideline 9 > Pattern 9C

Pattern 9C: Undo automated actions
Guideline 9 > Pattern 9D

Pattern 9D: Do G9 through G15
Guideline 9 > Pattern 9E

Pattern 9E: Batch-editing data

Guideline 10

Guideline 10

Scope services when in doubt

Engage in disambiguation or gracefully degrade the AI system’s services when uncertain about a user’s goals.
Guideline 10 > Pattern 10A

Pattern 10A: Disambiguate before acting
Guideline 10 > Pattern 10B

Pattern 10B: Avoid cold starts by eliciting user preferences
Guideline 10 > Pattern 10C

Pattern 10C: Fall back to other strategies