AI agents will end traditional UI design and accessibility, because users will stop visiting websites and act only through their agent.

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  The graphical user interface will survive AI in a less dominant role: future AI systems will have hybrid interfaces that combine intent and command.

  Nielsen says agents end traditional UI design because users will stop visiting websites, and also that the graphical interface survives in a reduced, hybrid role. Ending and surviving-in-reduced-form are compatible as a prediction and incompatible as advice to anyone deciding whether to keep employing interface designers.

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