Carey R. Woodruff

Striving to: have peace, radiate love, share faith, practice humility, and be grateful.

[Carey R. Woodruff @carey]

Civil discourse in the public town square is giving @dickc as Twitter CEO circa 2014.

This interview is so good.

[Brian Wallach @bsw5020]

Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU! A historic day for the ALS Community!

[Carey R. Woodruff @carey]

@jcandrew00 @SouthwestAir I’m a companion pass holder for 13 years, A List Prefrd for 3; just learned all of the loop holes on our (in)ability to extend benefits for seats to those we’re traveling with. It’s all to find new revenue + made booking a fam for lowest possible cost infuriatingly complicated.

[Carey R. Woodruff @carey]

Did I somehow get opted out of @Starbucks Rewards offers? They used to be daily and I’ve seen only 1 in this year

[Carey R. Woodruff @carey]

<buying a classic white bandana> #BeyonceBowl

[Carey R. Woodruff @carey]

.@United is killing it w marketing these days. Their recent ads (ALS w @bsw5020, girl w lost camera) have me rooting for them

[Brian Wallach @bsw5020]

I do not have the words to express what today has felt like. I probably never will. But I do know this, I am really excited for you all to watch the film.

Good night Moon.

[Brian Wallach @bsw5020]

BREAKING NEWS: I am freaking out with excitement to share that @noc_film will be streaming on @PrimeVideo May 28th!

Please share the trailer below with everyone so that, together, we can change the world. #ForLoveAndLife #NoOrdinaryCampaign

[Carey R. Woodruff @carey]

@SouthwestAir DM’d

[Carey R. Woodruff @carey]

.@SouthwestAir sad that software issues are causing you to let a plane leave DEN w one empty seat and 5 customers here who paid but aren’t eligible to board bc they can’t print our standby passes. Logic and manual processes should be able to override when tech fails.

[Carey R. Woodruff @carey]

@Chicago_History Logan square! Across from Palmer Park

[Carey R. Woodruff @carey]

@Derella @nflcommish @michaelirvin88 SO COOL

[Blair (Walker) Benedict @blairbenedict_]

👋🏻 Twitter/X,

Please help us find a living liver donor for my husband, Charles, by sharing/reposting our story below ⬇️. From the bottom of our hearts, thank you 💙.

[Carey R. Woodruff @carey]

@paulenoonan Winter break just started?

[Carey R. Woodruff @carey]

@Julianna @profgalloway @karaswisher Literally was going to podcasts next

[Sandra Abrevaya @sabrevaya]

So proud of the hard and impressive work of the coalition of @iamalsorg volunteers and others to push forward PPA for faster access to promising treatments. Proud to testify last week, to read Brian’s words on his behalf because ALS has taken his voice, along with so much else.💔

[Brett Goldslager @goldslager]

This is what leaders of all organizations should be striving to say. Thank you Ben Sasse

[Carey R. Woodruff @carey]

@goldslager Forever grateful our paths crossed & that turned into teammates and friendship. What an impact you made there and on many 💙

[Ella Ke @EllaTravelsLove]

Itai & Hadas Berdichevsky, 30 years old. They hid their 10 months year old twins in a shelter while terrorists broke into their home in Kfar Gaza (A Kibbutz). They tried to fight but were murdered. The babies weren't discovered and stayed alone while their parents are dead next to them for about 12-14 hours (!) before they were rescued.

Israelis are butchered, we are dealing with an ISIS like organization. Don't look away - share.

#gaza #FreePalaestine #GazaUnderAttack #Israel_under_attack #israel #IStandWithIsrael

[Elizabeth Laraki @elizlaraki]

In 2006, I was 1 of 4 designers on Google Search.

For 20 years, every search engine has copied Google.

Now ChatGPT, Bard + Claude look like Google's offspring - "better” search engines.

But last week signaled we're on the brink of a design revolution.

ChatGPT unveiled incredible new features.

These could give us the opportunity to completely shift how we interface with AI.

Here's the full story:

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When I was a designer on Google Search, all major search engines looked the same – Google, Yahoo, MSN Bing.

Google was the market leader with a heavily optimized UI that supported billions of dollars in ad revenue.

Naturally, it became THE way to show search results.

Its success made it illogical for Google to consider big UI changes.

And any changes they did make were just mirrored by everyone else.

So 20 years later, we’ve only seen incremental changes to search engine UIs.

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Today, we have consumer-ready LLMs (Large Language Models) freshly in our hands.

As consumer products, these are in their infancy.

We’re very early in understanding their capabilities and defining how people interact with them.

These are uncharted waters.

And yet ChatGPT, Bard, Claude etc. all chose a text-based input box — just like Google’s search box — as the core interface.

Why?

The input box is simple, versatile, and familiar.

- It’s simple to understand → you type your questions into the box.

- It’s versatile → the box can handle all sorts of questions/queries.

- The paradigm is super familiar → people immediately know how to use it.

Because of this, LLMs have essentially become “a better Google.”

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But last week’s ChatGPT announcements thrust open the doors to new possibilities.

ChatGPT is now multi-modal — it can see, hear, and speak.

These are the recent announcements from @OpenAI :

Voice: https://t.co/hAeXxBTH9l

Photos: https://t.co/X3QbLnwT1V

The example of ChatGPT explaining how to lower a bike seat was incredible.

But, it could be so much better!

The video showed you'll have to post multiple new photos to keep adding new information and to progress the conversation.

It was still a linear conversation centered around the text box.

But what if we rethought the interface to center around the image?

What if ChatGPT supported both images AND voice simultaneously?

Could we end up with a more immersive experience?

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How else could interacting with LLMs mimic IRL conversations?

Could we (or the AI) pinch to zoom or rotate the image?

Could we interact in real time with video?

What new possibilities open up with context being preserved over time?

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There is so much energy and excitement around what AI can do.

But we are limiting the potential by assuming the conversation box is the best interface.

Right now, designers have the chance to create truly novel interactions and bust through the 20+ year old search UI paradigm.

The ideas above are just to illustrate some potential options.

But they are also intended to spark a flame.

Now is the opportunity to be creative and explore divergent UIs.

What are the craziest, coolest, most creative UI ideas we can unleash?

LFG 🚀