# Living Documents as a UX Pattern in AI by Adam Wiggins ## Metadata - Author: [[Adam Wiggins]] - Full Title: Living Documents as a UX Pattern in AI - Category: #articles - URL: https://blog.elicit.com/living-documents-ai-ux/ ## Highlights added May 28, 2024 at 1:59 PM ![](https://img.spacergif.org/v1/1336x1080/0a/spacer.png) ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hz02hbx2cy9dabvg8a2237s4)) ## New highlights added May 30, 2024 at 9:01 AM Utility-based billing (for example, one search costs $0.01) is a good solution for surfacing costs to customers and mapping usage (and value) to how much they pay. However subscription models (pay one fixed monthly price) are more understandable for customers. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hz0eadw33bskh1z7p2py47c5)) But the reality is that this is a key area of UX for us, and will be so for anyone doing products that rely on serious use of AI in this way. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hz0ed0sqeqd65gd1p4v88shj)) If the user passes some arbitrarily-defined level of scale, should the UI switch to a batch mode with different affordances? Instead of trying to respond instantly to edits, users would queue up a batch of work and then start the process, returning later to see the results. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hz0eegn4v0qx07brmsdjmx64)) ## New highlights added November 20, 2024 at 5:09 PM ![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/mMSjNVQMIll6TXZZ39EQkijAdp5UBfNimd2Y7yejoOr5gon27vKU9Vv6JnQy9C-VqZTB82-TXhY9nN1NNfc3ON2x2zn_76dRFSbG2IC6yTYCByb611WK5U3Wkcx_fSAjR-7IgFxrYl3Syt0kaO7z_7Y) ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jd5rjvj0d3s51gc65p6ss1x5)) A knowledgeable human operator works together with the computer in a process of refining the search query, scanning/filtering the papers, experimenting with different column names (themselves a type of query that drives the data extraction), and verifying the AI's work. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jd5rmtx9mb0hxnw55ey5x42q)) in the conventional workflow, a researcher would have to *read the entire paper to figure out what data is needed* and then copy-paste or paraphrase the data items into their Excel results set. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jd5rq15txv27c2jfxs1djs5m))