What is Generative UI?
An introduction to Generative UI, its benefits, and practical usage in your applications.
What is Generative UI?
Generative UI (Generative User Interface) refers to interfaces that are dynamically generated by leveraging AI technologies, particularly large language models (LLMs) and generative models. These interfaces adapt to user inputs, context, and preferences, creating a more personalized, intuitive, and engaging user experience.
Generative UI moves away from traditional static or manually coded interfaces toward ones that are automatically produced in response to user prompts, data-driven contexts, or real-time interactions.
How Generative UI Works
Generative UI leverages artificial intelligence primarily large language models, to:
- Interpret natural language prompts.
- Generate contextually relevant UI components.
- Adapt dynamically based on user interaction or state changes.
Benefits of Generative UI
Generative UI offers several advantages:
- Personalization: Automatically adjusts interfaces based on user preferences and historical interactions.
- Efficiency: Reduces manual coding and iterative design processes.
- Accessibility: Dynamically generates accessible components suited to individual needs.
- Scalability: Quickly adapts to new features, content, or workflows without extensive manual updates.
Practical Use Cases
Generative UI is beneficial in various industries, including:
- Ecommerce: Automatically creating personalized shopping experiences, product recommendations, and checkout processes.
- Analytics: Dynamically generating dashboards and reports tailored to specific data insights or user roles.
- Edtech: Creating customized learning interfaces, adapting content based on learner progress, and generating interactive educational materials.
Getting Started with Generative UI
To begin integrating Generative UI into your application, visit our Getting Started Guide.
Best Practices
- Clearly define your prompts to iterate on the structure of the UI output. For example,
if you want to generate a “Add to cart” button every time a product is displayed,
you can use a prompt like
"Generate a 'Add to cart' button when displaying a product". - Do not try to embed stylistic elements (like button colors)in the prompt as style is maintained at the Design System level.