TLDR Design · MISCELLANEOUS
AGENTIC AI INTERFACE IMPROVEMENTS
Summary from the TLDR Design newsletter
Agentic AI systems that perform extended reasoning and tool use create usability problems in traditional chat interfaces, particularly when users lose track of their initial instructions as the AI's lengthy internal processes push content off-screen. This post introduces a new dual-scroll pane layout that separates the AI's process in the left column from results in the right column, keeping both visible simultaneously. After completion, the thinking steps collapse into a summary that can be reopened for review, with each step linking to its specific result.