Opta – AI & Browsing

My overall thoughts on this design is that it’s minimalist, with plenty of space and a clean look. The black theme is sleek and likely appeals to modern users who prefer darker UIs. This is extra nice when considering it helps reduce eye strain for those spending a lot of time on browsers. Although I like your explorations in iteration 5 and 6, I can imagine those designs would be less intuitive because it doesn't follow the traditional layout of the browsers out there now. It is fun though to explore those ideas, and I do get excited when I see browsers like 'Arc' trying out new styles. Your iteration 1 would probably be the most intuitive according to Jakob’s Law. 

When looking at the AI result next to the organic search result they do look visually the same. It would be better to distinguish the AI-generated answer more clearly with background colours or different fonts or bolder borders. Even though I like the dark mode, the contrast between the white text and dark background could be slightly better. Some text, particularly the small descriptions below the links, might be hard to read for users to read. 

Nice work! I find the idea very intriguing because I believe in the near future the search engines will indeed be merged with ai. I know a lot of people using ChatGPT for small simple searches instead of Google like they normally would.