I have created a number of small tools to help create consistent documents that share a similar template, and each time the takeaway I have is that AI-driven design is template-based.
You can open up a traditional design tool like Adobe Illustrator and produce a logo, a brochure, an illustration, and a website layout. All of these designs could be achieved using smarter tools, but I doubt you’d be able to build 1 design tool that had smarts for a logo, brochure, illustration, website, or anything else built in, unless those templates were added specifically.
It’s easy to make a ‘résumé builder’ that helps you make a really nice résumé (even easier than a word processor), however the creative freedom of what formats you can create with a word processor will never be matched.
So what does AI-driven design mean for designers? Simple: instead of sitting around using general tools making many specific designs, in the future designers will be sitting around creating many specific templates to allow anybody to produce a specific type of layout. And I can’t wait for this future to arrive :D
Ooh, that sounds really interesting! Can you share more about that? I love the idea of ‘living templates’.
I have the idea for template-based emails for companies where either emailing people fast is a key advantage, or having a standardized set of templates to all interactions followed the same guidelines but I never found a chance to build it. Then I saw this Client Email builder by Jessica Hische: http://jessicahische.is/helpingyouanswer
I have created a number of small tools to help create consistent documents that share a similar template, and each time the takeaway I have is that AI-driven design is template-based.
You can open up a traditional design tool like Adobe Illustrator and produce a logo, a brochure, an illustration, and a website layout. All of these designs could be achieved using smarter tools, but I doubt you’d be able to build 1 design tool that had smarts for a logo, brochure, illustration, website, or anything else built in, unless those templates were added specifically.
It’s easy to make a ‘résumé builder’ that helps you make a really nice résumé (even easier than a word processor), however the creative freedom of what formats you can create with a word processor will never be matched.
So what does AI-driven design mean for designers? Simple: instead of sitting around using general tools making many specific designs, in the future designers will be sitting around creating many specific templates to allow anybody to produce a specific type of layout. And I can’t wait for this future to arrive :D
One of the teams I manage is doing exactly this but for prose instead of graphic design.
Ooh, that sounds really interesting! Can you share more about that? I love the idea of ‘living templates’.
I have the idea for template-based emails for companies where either emailing people fast is a key advantage, or having a standardized set of templates to all interactions followed the same guidelines but I never found a chance to build it. Then I saw this Client Email builder by Jessica Hische: http://jessicahische.is/helpingyouanswer