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Disclaimer: I am in this space. UI generation is an interesting problem. It's very from other domains like copywriting, search, etc. that these new AI models e
by preommr 4y ago
Disclaimer: I am in this space.
UI generation is an interesting problem. It's very from other domains like copywriting, search, etc. that these new AI models excel at. For it to be useful in the UI field, there are quite a few things more that are needed. Something like this is just one step above using stable diffusion for generating images of prototypes to get good color schemes, and applying that to a template off of website marketplace like envato.
One thing that makes ui different is that it's not that difficult to adapt a design for multiple purposes. Often times just changing the images. That's very different from images where you can't just swap out sections of an image because things like the lighting will be off. It's makes customization very easy, so the tolerance for getting a design and tearing it apart to be able to customize it is a lot lower. You can mockup a presentable design for a button in like a minute, so it's not worth the hassle of using prompts to slowly make adjustments as opposed to images where it's going to take hours to design what a single prompt can do.
Also the key thing with ui design isn't the design - again ui is highly adaptable. You can grab two templates and have it used within the company. You can't grab two different images with different styles and put them in a picture book. The key thing with ui/ux is about communication and making sure everyone is happy and various issues are addressed. It's what made figma so great, because you didn't have to ask people do download photoshop to view a file or if they wanted to tweak something slightly. It's about making sure that small details like the spacing are consistent, and when they can be broken and communicating that with the dev team. It's a bunch of ideas that need to be communicated that happens as the design is developed. If those things don't get produced, that's a problem.