Chip placement: three "out of the way" alternatives

For comparison only. The decision was: keep chips inline (current), drop the model handoff. This shows what would change if chips moved.

A. Wander button + popover

A small "Wander" button in the toolbar opens a popover with chips. Out of the message stream entirely. One click to access.

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Wander into the garden
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What's this page actually about?
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The Garden
Maai & AI is the home of Maaike Groenewege's writing on conversation design and generative AI. The garden has articles she has carefully shaped, field notes from practice, and seeds she is still working out. The voice you are reading is not a chatbot in the usual sense; it is a way of talking through her writing.
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You
What's the most controversial thing she's written?
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The Garden
Her piece on chatbots without AI argues that most "AI conversation" products would be better off as well-designed forms. It cuts across the industry's default that more language model is always better.
The Garden can be wrong.

B. Footer band above input

A persistent thin strip just above the input. Always visible, small type, refreshable. Doesn't break the message flow but stays present.

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You
What's this page actually about?
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The Garden
Maai & AI is the home of Maaike Groenewege's writing on conversation design and generative AI. The garden has articles she has carefully shaped, field notes from practice, and seeds she is still working out.
M
You
What's the most controversial thing she's written?
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The Garden
Her piece on chatbots without AI argues that most "AI conversation" products would be better off as well-designed forms. It cuts across the industry's default that more language model is always better.
Wander
The Garden can be wrong.

C. Side rail

A persistent vertical strip on the right. Always visible but spatially separate from the message stream. Most "ambient" of the three.

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You
What's this page actually about?
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The Garden
Maai & AI is the home of Maaike Groenewege's writing on conversation design and generative AI.
M
You
What's controversial?
G
The Garden
Her piece on chatbots without AI argues that most "AI conversation" products would be better off as forms.
The Garden can be wrong.

Mockup only. Chip text is illustrative — real chips would be contextually generated.