The Next Interface: Learn how Google Gemini is rethinking how we design and build for AI

For decades, the graphical user interface (GUI) has defined the way we navigate the digital world. From the folders and files on our computer desktops to the buttons, menus, search bars and icons we tap on to order food, book a flight or scroll through a website, GUIs turned complex computer systems into something we could understand at a glance. Click here, open that, drag this, close the window – these familiar visual cues gave us a shared language for interacting with technology. And, over time, they became so embedded in everyday life that we barely notice them.

But the way we interact with technology is changing. AI can generate content, interpret context and respond differently depending on what we ask of it, rather than simply following a fixed sequence of commands. So, as software becomes less predictable and more responsive, what happens to the interface itself – and what does that mean for the designers building them?

That’s the question at the heart of The Next Interface, a new event from It’s Nice That and Google Gemini, coming to New York Live Arts on Thursday 17 September. Bringing together designers, creatives and technologists, the event will explore what the next generation of digital experiences could look and feel like – and what role designers will play in shaping them.