WeChat’s Ugly AI Clutter Isn’t Bad Design. It’s a Super-App Fighting for Its Life.
WeChat is cramming five redundant AI entry points onto a single article page, creating a messy, cluttered user experience. But this isn’t bad design—it’s the ugly, necessary friction of a super-app evolving. Unlike Alipay’s lazy separate tab approach, WeChat is forcing probabilistic AI into deterministic workflows, choosing survival over elegance.