--- title: Where should AI go in your UI? A UX guide to AI feature... description: A practical framework helps product teams decide where AI features should live in a UI, weighing discoverability against interruption. Common placement... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/where-should-ai-go-in-your-ui-a-ux-guide-to-ai-feature-placement-zgg2sjwtt twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Where should AI go in your UI? A UX guide to AI feature placement | daily.dev og:description: A practical framework helps product teams decide where AI features should live in a UI, weighing discoverability against interruption. Common placement... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/where-should-ai-go-in-your-ui-a-ux-guide-to-ai-feature-placement-zgg2sjwtt og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/zGg2sJwtT.png og:image:alt: Where should AI go in your UI? A UX guide to AI feature placement og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Where should AI go in your UI? A UX guide to AI feature placement **[LogRocket](https://daily.dev/sources/logrocket)** · 12 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A practical framework helps product teams decide where AI features should live in a UI, weighing discoverability against interruption. Common placement patterns are broken down—floating widgets (Grammarly), toolbars/action bars (Canva, Affinity), sidebars (Opera, Firefox, GitHub Copilot), dedicated hubs (Figma AI), and inline triggers—along with what each signals to users. A five-question checklist (is AI central to the workflow, does the product category have conventions, how often will users need it, what scope does it act on, could it live in a menu) is applied to a worked example of adding AI task drafting to a project management tool. The piece also critiques aggressive AI placement like WhatsApp's Meta AI button and Windows' dedicated Copilot key replacing the right Ctrl key. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### Where should I place an AI feature in my product's UI? Placement should match the feature's actual value and usage frequency rather than maximizing visibility. Occasional, selection-level AI features fit inline or in an action bar; frequently used, product-wide AI features suit a sidebar, toolbar, or persistent widget; and AI that is central to the entire workflow justifies a dedicated page. A five-question framework covers workflow centrality, product-category conventions, usage frequency, operating scope, and whether a menu placement would suffice. _Weigh AI placement tradeoffs against real UX patterns and examples curated on daily.dev._ ### Where do popular apps put their AI chat widgets, like Grammarly or GitHub Copilot? Grammarly anchors its AI widget to the bottom-right of text fields with idle-to-active state transitions (a small G icon, a colored circle with a number for pending suggestions, a dot when idle). Opera puts AI chat on the right sidebar, Firefox on the left, and GitHub Copilot appears in a sidebar within VS Code, all keeping AI accessible without leaving the primary workspace. _Compare how established tools surface AI assistants on daily.dev before designing your own._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Where \(and Why\) We Really Need AI in the UX Workflow](https://daily.dev/posts/where-and-why-we-really-need-ai-in-the-ux-workflow-rkkcazty8) · UX Planet · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [AI UX Patterns to Show Meaningful User Benefit](https://daily.dev/posts/ai-ux-patterns-to-show-meaningful-user-benefit-btwm0w2kg) · Telerik · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [How to design AI features that actually improve user experience](https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-design-ai-features-that-actually-improve-user-experience-bqjhsaubd) · LogRocket · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [How to add AI to an existing product \(without annoying users\)](https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-add-ai-to-an-existing-product-without-annoying-users--mibhkmjy6) · InfoWorld · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#ai](https://daily.dev/tags/ai), [#ux](https://daily.dev/tags/ux), [#ui-design](https://daily.dev/tags/ui-design), [#figma](https://daily.dev/tags/figma) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/where-should-ai-go-in-your-ui-a-ux-guide-to-ai-feature-placement-zgg2sjwtt) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Where should AI go in your UI? 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