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> I would not want to be a manual font designer in the future. I wouldn't want to be any designer in the future. Eventually there will be a tool to generate an
by battery_cowboy 7y ago
> I would not want to be a manual font designer in the future.
I wouldn't want to be any designer in the future. Eventually there will be a tool to generate any design with easy sliders and stuff. You can already design logos in software that are as good as the best designers 20 years ago for free with a few YouTube videos, imagine what this type of generation tech will do in the future.
I think that along with the current easy to use API 3rd-party systems, like Stripe or Uberauth, we're basically going to go back to a ColdFusion style design tools for the "low hanging fruit" sites like regional grocery stores and below where there are generic templates for a whole e-commerce site and back end for your business with the front end included, but this time you can use all kinds of knobs, levers, and buttons to adjust it to look unique and personal for your business and the backend generation will happen based on your product data requirements and the like.
We already kinda have that for mom + pop stores and smaller businesses. The only companies that will need handcrafted web apps will be the out-of-the-ordinary businesses like Uber, or the huge companies that need more complex logic, like FedEx or Walmart. Everyone else will either do it themselves with whatever the Wix of this type of thing is or they will hire some farm of developers (like an Amazon warehouse, but with developers instead of pickers) to task one of their drones to do it.
On different kind of note, that page header font warping thing is super fun to look at while intoxicated!