You know it’s only a matter of time before you can feed your app design to a chatgpt / image analysis tool and it will recommend an improved UI/UX…

Everyone will be a designer. 

As a follow-up, it’ll plug into Figma and generate the designs for you.

Don’t have a design? No problem. Just describe what your app will do and refine with a few follow-up prompts to get full designs and code for each color palette you choose.

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But will it make great design?

Absolutely. Design is nothing more than math on a screen. Pixels arranged into patterns.

If anyone knows pixels, it’s systems that have studied millions of them in every type of layout imaginable.

wow

Wouldn’t it lead to a lot of the sites becoming more and more similar to each other in terms of UX/UI?

Not if you’re good at language and engineering your prompt to invoke certain characteristics from the A.I.

It’s all about how you ask. 🙂

They already are 😂

Most ux is based on some other app.

I mostly agree regarding interface design, but I would say that it will only automate part of the overall design process.

The foundation of design is understanding your user: their needs, delights, and pain points. As far as I know, humans are still the best at empathizing with each other.

Easy: ask and enter as prompt. No feedback? Ship v1, gather feedback, prompt.

I think what I’ve experienced with AI transcriptions will probably be the norm for other fields: AI does 90% of the heavy lifting, and the final 10% is human editing and fine-tuning.

I thought of you as soon as I saw this https://github.com/flamewerk/production

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Someone forked this and is making a framework for nostr apps and clients. Don't know their npub but saw a demo on Saturday.

Please link when available!

I was gonna ask you if there was some common base you use for badges, habla, ect… would love a stripped down cleaned up version where I could just start changing kinds and tags then lay a gui on top.

No common base but im probably going to make or contribute to one. I think I've settled with the gear I want to use for nostr apps. nostr-tools, ndk, cache and offline with indexeddb and UI library I default to react but doesn't matter much.

I can see even that it's gonna be able to reliably predict the A/B test results even before you launch one.

More so, if we feed it some data.

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On that note, I've been thinking how much benefit the users of the world could reap if all those UX A/B tests people run within their closed sourced corps would be stored publicly in a well formatted repository.

I think we're close to it. For any startup, it doesn't make sense to not share their A/B tests results.

Will never happen. UX is not a primary concern of a business. Profits drive product design decisions and that would never go into a public database. It’s like openly sharing with competitors. Besides, if people knew why apps are designed a certain way - the real why - there would be outcry and cancelling left and right.

Never say never.

The public outcry could be a big risk for some businesses. But the competition might be just a spectre for many.

Similarly as with the Google's leaked AI report, the local to-go restaurant's online menu might get more value by sharing their test about menu with Best Sellers vs Appetizer at the top, and being able to compare with dozens of others, and collect further feedback in comments, etc.

Maybe it's just a pipe dream, but I would love such website. And I hope that one day, we can get it, and crowd source/accelerate the evangelization of good ui.

*btw, I'm probably strongly inspired by the Patterns on goodui.org . it's a cool project, but I would love to see open source version of this, with more data available, and more social engagement features.