--- title: "Where should AI go in your UI? A UX guide to AI feature placement" url: https://daily.dev/posts/where-should-ai-go-in-your-ui-a-ux-guide-to-ai-feature-placement-zgg2sjwtt source_url: https://blog.logrocket.com/ux-design/ai-ui-placement type: article source: "LogRocket" published: 2026-08-24T08:09:27.856Z updated: 2026-08-24T08:10:05.538Z tags: ["ai", "ux", "ui-design", "figma"] reading_time: 12 upvotes: 1 comments: 0 language: 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 that only occasionally assists an existing workflow, like drafting task descriptions? Inline placement, close to where the action happens, works best for occasional AI assistance. For a project management tool where AI drafts a task description, an inline prompt like 'Draft with AI' should appear only when the description field is empty and disappear once the user starts typing, avoiding a persistent or attention-seeking UI element. _daily.dev surfaces UX guidance like this for teams deciding how prominently to surface AI features._ ### What UX pattern does Grammarly use for its AI writing suggestions widget? Grammarly anchors a small floating widget to the bottom-right corner of text fields, following the industry convention for chat and help tools. It shows a small 'G' icon when idle, switches to a colored circle with a number when suggestions are ready, and shows a dot while waiting for the user to finish typing, giving subtle status signals without interrupting the user. _Designers weighing AI widget placement can find pattern breakdowns like this through daily.dev._ ### Why is putting the same AI button next to every item in a list considered bad UX? Repeating an AI action button next to every single item in a list, such as a 'Spin AI site' button beside every domain in a hosting dashboard, creates redundancy that reads as a persistent sales pitch rather than a helpful feature. A single global entry point at the top of the list, or a contextual action when managing an individual item, communicates the same capability without the repetitive noise. _daily.dev helps developers and designers track real-world critiques of AI feature placement like this._ ## 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 - [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 --- 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)