Logged-out chat flow

From the public chat empty state through tool discovery and a prepared prompt to the login gate for advanced capabilities.

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Logged-out new chat

A single prompt composer anchors the empty state while the sidebar previews adjacent capabilities and keeps login calls to action visible but secondary.

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ChatGPT UX Teardown: A Model Menu That Opens a Login Card

A UX teardown of ChatGPT's logged-out web chat: a composer you can use with no account, a plus menu that marks locked tools where you look for them, and a ChatGPT dropdown that opens a login card instead of options.

TYPENORMLabs · 5 min · September 29, 2026

ChatGPT UX Teardown: A Model Menu That Opens a Login Card

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