Affora: A Design System for Agent-Friendly Interfaces
Affora is a design system making interfaces legible to computer-use agents while preserving human workflows, with reusable components and executable checks.
Affora supports both human users and computer-use agents through a shared interface rather than a separate agent-only surface. Three controlled studies cover component implementations, visual variation, and interaction-design principles, producing guidance from individual components to complete sites with reusable implementations and executable checks. Evaluation on independently authored interfaces shows gains where agent-readability deficits exist, limited effects where they do not, and a workflow case gives preliminary evidence of reduced interaction cost.
- Agent performance depends on the interaction meaning available in the interface representation
- Substantial visual variation remains possible when interaction meaning is preserved
- Gains appear only where existing interfaces have agent-readability deficits
- Connects user experience and agent experience in one shared interface
- Products
- Affora
From the original article
1 min read at arxiv.orgComputer-use agents increasingly operate software designed for people, but interfaces often leave actions or task state unclear to machine readers. We present Affora, a design system that supports both readers while preserving visual freedom and familiar human workflows. Three controlled studies examine component implementations, visual variation, and interaction-design principles.
By Jin Gao · arxiv.org
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