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What are AI Chat UIs? + Design, Architecture, and Implementation

Chat UIs are fast becoming a critical part of how we interact with all kinds of software systems. In the age of AI, natural language interactions are increasingly replacing more structured, static UIs in a huge range of apps and workflows. We can’t overstate what a fundamental change this is to how users interact with software tools. Today, we’re diving deep into everything you need to know about serving chat interfaces to your users.

Ronan McQuillan

Oct 16, 2025

Employee Offboarding Processes | Ultimate Guide

It’s a fact of life that colleagues don’t stick around forever. However, when people leave our team, it can create huge admin workloads across IT, HR, finance, legal, and the leaver’s own department. If we don’t get this right, we risk several issues relating to workloads, operational continuity, payroll, information security, internal communications, compliance, and more. In the first part of this in-depth guide to employee onboarding processes, we’re outlining everything you need to know about developing robust systems to manage colleagues leaving your organization.

Ronan McQuillan

Oct 13, 2025

AI Forms | Use Cases, Examples & Solutions

AI forms are becoming an increasingly critical component within all sorts of workflows. After all, forms are some of the basic building blocks of how we empower users to interact with data and processes. With the ever-growing prevalence of AI, it only stands to reason that form-building would be one of the areas that’s most impacted. What’s tricky, though, is that the term AI form can refer to a few fairly different things, depending on context.

Ronan McQuillan

Sep 26, 2025

Top 10 AI From Builders for 2025

AI form builders have exploded in popularity over the past couple of years, offering a fast, easy way to output working data collection tools. Because of this, we now have a huge number of AI form generators to choose from, including from most of the big names in the form builder space more broadly. However, it’s also important to note that this comes as part of a wider rush for SaaS brands to implement AI functionality.

Ronan McQuillan

Sep 26, 2025

Build Dynamic Forms on Top of Any Data | 4 Methods

Dynamic forms are a powerful, flexible solution for adding additional logic to our data collection workflows. The idea is to enable us to present forms with different schemas, depending on our needs in a given situation. As we’ll see later, this can be based on a few different types of logic. However, this is something that can be quite difficult to achieve, even with many of the top dedicated form builders.

Ronan McQuillan

Sep 23, 2025

10 Employee Onboarding Software Tools for 2025

Employee onboarding is a far-reaching, complex process that just about every business needs to manage. This covers all aspects of how we transition a new hire from accepting an offer to becoming a fully productive member of the team. As such, onboarding requires extensive collaboration between stakeholders in diverse departments, including HR, finance, IT, and the onboardee’s new team. The key challenge here is that the tasks we assign to each of these colleagues need to be closely tracked and managed, especially in terms of handling dependencies and sequencing.

Ronan McQuillan

Sep 18, 2025

How to Design an Employee Onboarding Process | Ultimate Guide

Employee onboarding is an essential, wide-reaching process in every business. Successfully onboarding new hires means integrating them into the company culture and enabling them to become productive colleagues as quickly as possible. However, this is also a uniquely challenging process. There are a couple of reasons for this. Firstly, onboarding requires input from a range of colleagues across HR, IT, finance, and the hiree’s own department. Secondly, although many of the core tasks will be the same, the specific details of how we onboard employees will depend on their role.

Ronan McQuillan

Sep 18, 2025

6 TypeForm Alternatives for 2025

TypeForm is one of the most popular form builder tools on the market today, owing in large part to its intuitive, streamlined experiences for creating professional data collection UIs. However, this is a relatively crowded space, with several notable vendors targeting specific types of use cases and end users. Today, we’re checking out an important angle on form builders, by checking out some of the most prominent TypeForm alternatives on the market today.

Ronan McQuillan

Sep 3, 2025

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