AI for interface design

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Generating a first screen, and why it is a draft

Lesson 2 of 11 in AI for interface design.

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A generated screen is a fast way to have an opinion. Looking at a wrong version of something is a reliable route to knowing what the right version is, and that has always been true of sketches; the machine is simply faster at being wrong.

A heavy anchor sits on a table with its chain wrapped around one ordinary paper screen layout. Nearby, two very different paper layouts, one with a big circle and one a tall stack of shapes, float up like kites held by a designer.
The first draft is the anchor. Fly two very different ones before anyone settles on it.
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  1. Question 1, locked

    Which of these words means this? “Something to react to. Its only job, and a real one.”

    • Real data
    • Throwaway prototype
    • First draft
    • Coding agent
  2. Question 2, locked

    Which of these words means this? “The first version quietly setting the range of everything after it.”

    • Anchoring
    • Non-deterministic
    • Focus order
    • Screen reader
  3. Question 3, locked

    Which of these words means this? “Looks right, has not been thought about. The characteristic output.”

    • Plausible
    • Review
    • Verbatim
    • Confirmation bias

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