If you’ve software recently, you know that design is neglected – do you enjoy using the site are? Are you confused by it? That’s the from lack of good design. Why not get some help from everyone’s favorite little buddy?
It’s a good example of how AI can be used to fix a problem and do something new: fan out good design more. Well, “do something new” as in “do it in the first place.”
We can always use more and better design in software Even the designer’s tools are poorly designed:
most of them are hard to use and nearly impossible to discover, to an extent which would have embarrassed us all five years ago. Capabilities hide behind prompts. Features are released without being announced and change without being documented. The interface is a text box and an expectation that you will work out what it can do. So designers don’t adopt a tool, they assemble one. Each person keeps the pieces that worked for them and drops the ones that didn’t, and the result is a toolchain for one, multiplied by the number of people doing the work.
And, then on doing things differently: instead orbit publishing a reference for widgets and, like, the philosophy of the house-style, how can you make more of a living design system?
Take a corporate design system. Covering branding, physical product design, wayfinding, digital products. Multi discipline. One brand. What this documentation typically covers is fundamentals and examples. These fundamentals are represented at level of abstraction. The examples point the way, but are often out of date before they are published. The truth is, the work in the wild is the truest representation of any system in practice. A context layer would hold this information. Updated in realtime.
🔗 Is The Future of Design Systems In A Context Layer?
Related, I talked with the Tanzu design team recently about how they’re using AI. Design systems came up a lot, much along the same lines as the above:
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