Anyone else think PayPal's interface was designed specifically to waste your time? I swear they move buttons around just to mess with us.

Today I needed to find a specific subscription in PayPal. Should be simple. I've done this before, but somehow PayPal's navigation still makes zero sense to me. Two minutes in, I'm clicking around randomly. Every section looks like it might be the right one, but none of them actually are.

The AI-First Mindset Shift

Here's where most people would keep clicking for another ten minutes, getting increasingly frustrated. But I've trained myself to think AI-first now. When I hit any kind of friction, my automatic response is: how can AI help me solve this?

Then I remembered Google AI Studio has a screen sharing feature I keep meaning to try.

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Google AI Studio — Screen Sharing Share your screen with the AI and ask it to guide you through any interface in real time. Free to use at aistudio.google.com.
AI Screen Sharing navigating PayPal interface

The 30-Second Solution

Opened AI Studio, hit screen share, and said: "Help me find this subscription in PayPal."

The AI could see my screen and immediately guided me to exactly where I needed to go. Done.

15 min
of frustrated random clicking
→
30 sec
of direct AI guidance to the right spot

"Instead of accepting bad UX as something you have to suffer through, treat it as a problem AI can solve instantly."

Where This Actually Works

Screen sharing AI is perfect for navigation problems — when you know what you want but cannot figure out where they hid it. Works for any terribly designed interface:

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Payment platforms
PayPal, Stripe dashboards, bank portals that rearrange themselves monthly.
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Government sites
Tax portals, permit applications, registration systems built in 2003.
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Enterprise software
SAP, Salesforce, legacy systems where nothing is where you expect it.
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Insurance portals
Anything where simple tasks are made unnecessarily complicated by design.

Most people still default to manual struggle when they hit digital friction. But there is another option: ask AI to guide you through it. The tool can see exactly what you are looking at and point you to the right spot. Saves time, saves frustration, gets the job done.

Anyone else thinking AI-first when you hit interface problems? The tools are right there — might as well use them for the annoying stuff too.