Luke Wroblewski: Future generations won't learn GUIs — agents will run apps for us
LukeW · x · 2026-09-02
Veteran product designer Luke Wroblewski argues that humanity spent decades learning to use GUI applications, but future generations won't.
In his view, the next abstraction layer means agents handle application use, not humans — a generational shift in interaction paradigms where natural-language agents flatten the learning curve of apps entirely.
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