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With the recent trend of designers submitting their meticulously labeled designs to Figma, there is anticipation that Adobe will soon make a game-changing annou

by nbzso 4y ago

With the recent trend of designers submitting their meticulously labeled designs to Figma, there is anticipation that Adobe will soon make a game-changing announcement - the elimination of the need for a separate UI designer. This will allow everyone to take on the role of designer, thus bringing to light the fundamental truth that design is primarily about solving user problems, followed by making it accessible and aesthetically pleasing experience. However, the last ten years of UI design, dominated by the influence of Dribble, has led many to believe that they are designers simply because they have acquired basic skills and experimented with variations. I hope, this shift will give the power to designers, finally, to decouple their minds from the visual bias and personal preferences and connect with the user problems in a meaningful and productive way.

stephencoyner 4y ago
I tend to agree. It makes me think that the roles of PM, UX and Eng will start to converge slowly as AI gets better in each field. People will still need to be product thinkers and storytellers though
- nbzso 4y ago
  If I use all the successful ideas for past products as input for my AI model and then use a series of AI models to create and validate prototypes, why would I need to bring in a human to the loop and risk disrupting the process?
TeMPOraL 4y ago
> With the recent trend of designers submitting their meticulously labeled designs to Figma Oh god. I must have had this thought many times, but the way you structured this sentence finally made it click loud and clear for me: the AI revolution feeds on the previous era of user-generated content. We've all spent the last ~two decades "submitting our meticulously labeled" content to all kinds of platforms. While it quickly became an open secret that those platforms are taking on the hosting and delivery costs in exchange for exposing us to ads (and profiling us to get a better deal on those ads), I'm not sure if anyone predicted that the user-generated content itself will become pure gold. Right now, every platform that owns a large amount of user-generated content is sitting on a mother lode: a corpus of labeled examples of a type of content, ready to be fed into ML models for training. Random examples off the top of my head: Facebook could train a ChatGPT on its own corpus of posts and comments, but could also make a model that generates plausibly looking digital records of populations, complete with personality quirks, relationships, photos, etc. Hell, if they get their VR fairy land off the ground, they could actually populate it with such virtual people - solving the problem of NPCs in games being obviously scripted and boring (and also solving the "chicken and egg" problem of a social network by using AI as ultimate astroturfing/sockpuppeting tool). Makes me wonder if we'll see more and more barriers popping up on those platforms, to make it difficult for competition to just scrap the content at scale.
anonzzzies 4y ago
I hope that any company who does this will have an api, as I would want to add it to our automation workflow.

by nbzso 4y ago

stephencoyner 4y ago

I tend to agree. It makes me think that the roles of PM, UX and Eng will start to converge slowly as AI gets better in each field. People will still need to be product thinkers and storytellers though

nbzso 4y ago
If I use all the successful ideas for past products as input for my AI model and then use a series of AI models to create and validate prototypes, why would I need to bring in a human to the loop and risk disrupting the process?

TeMPOraL 4y ago

> With the recent trend of designers submitting their meticulously labeled designs to Figma Oh god. I must have had this thought many times, but the way you structured this sentence finally made it click loud and clear for me: the AI revolution feeds on the previous era of user-generated content. We've all spent the last ~two decades "submitting our meticulously labeled" content to all kinds of platforms. While it quickly became an open secret that those platforms are taking on the hosting and delivery costs in exchange for exposing us to ads (and profiling us to get a better deal on those ads), I'm not sure if anyone predicted that the user-generated content itself will become pure gold. Right now, every platform that owns a large amount of user-generated content is sitting on a mother lode: a corpus of labeled examples of a type of content, ready to be fed into ML models for training. Random examples off the top of my head: Facebook could train a ChatGPT on its own corpus of posts and comments, but could also make a model that generates plausibly looking digital records of populations, complete with personality quirks, relationships, photos, etc. Hell, if they get their VR fairy land off the ground, they could actually populate it with such virtual people - solving the problem of NPCs in games being obviously scripted and boring (and also solving the "chicken and egg" problem of a social network by using AI as ultimate astroturfing/sockpuppeting tool). Makes me wonder if we'll see more and more barriers popping up on those platforms, to make it difficult for competition to just scrap the content at scale.

anonzzzies 4y ago

I hope that any company who does this will have an api, as I would want to add it to our automation workflow.