Designing the Slope: The Default Is Still the Product

A short video argues that the future of interfaces is software you can modify yourself, by command, from inside the app. The wish is fifty years old, and the research on who actually modifies software is clear about one thing: most people live in the default, a few tinkerers change things for everyone else, and the changes people use most are a handful of global dials. If AI makes everyone able to change the interface, the designer's work moves from the screen to the slope.