Machine Learning For Interactive Design

We believe in Interactive Content Creation

The democratization of
the creation process

A founding principle of Intuiface has been to make interactive content creation equally accessible not only to both the technical and the non-technical, but also to the professional and casual designer among us. In essence, a democratization of the creation process. The only prerequisite? A design idea, an inspiration, a vision for the visual.

Machine Learning-based assistance

The design process itself can be democratized using machine learning-based algorithms. Our vision is a system that suggests design options based on both crowd-sourced and individual preferences, enabling Intuiface users to easily adjust proposals according to context, personal needs and histories, resulting in a playful yet augmented, organic, and productive process of discovery.

Simplification through smart automation

Artificially intelligent systems can learn each user’s preferences over time, dynamically generating suggestions that encode that user’s and others' DNA while continuing to tweak, refine, and break convention to keep designs fresh and current. Through automation and prefiltering, users are presented a range of usable, unique and personally custom options rather than a tangle of small variants on a theme.

What Are The Benefits of Machine Learning Design

According to Rob Girling, “In the next 10 years, all visual design jobs will be augmented with algorithmic visual approaches.”

Machine Learning Presentations For Interactive Design

1. Empowering anyone, of any skill set, to create well structured, highly appealing machine learning designs

2. Massively amplifying the ability to experiment

3. Bootstrapping new skill acquisition through facilitated learning

Intuiface & Interactive Machine Learning #1: API Consumption

Modern design tools should make it easy to incorporate external data. Everything from the weather and currency conversion rates to NASA photos, Rijksmuseum art collections, Twitter feeds, Spotify albums and proprietary in-house systems, there is a flood of useful content and services located in the cloud - aka Web Services - just waiting for designers to leverage their value. Designing with real data means we can move faster, surface problems and additional constraints sooner, and ultimately create better experiences for our users.

A person’s technical skill shouldn’t matter with interactive machine learning, it should be as simple as pasting a URL or drag-and-dropping a file. Unfortunately, the language spoken by each of these Web services – their Application Programming Interface, or API – requires technical skill to understand and use. The resulting “Great API Wall” was only scalable by software developers, creating an unfair advantage for a privileged few and limiting the full potential of this available content and information.

To learn more about Web Service APIs, read this.

IntuiLab created API Explorer to address this fair access challenge.

API Explorer takes an Web Service API's request URL as input and generates a non-technical, user-friendly display of the usually esoteric response that is delivered. In parallel, API Explorer automatically preselects the returned API properties (the content and services located in the cloud) it considers most likely to be useful in an interactive experience (e.g. images, videos, websites, text, etc.).

All of this is facilitated by a machine learning engine within API Explorer which gets “smarter” by observing users world-wide as they identify their preferred API properties.

Intuiface & Machine Learning #2: Interactive Design Assistance

What is the optimal way to display content? Even a seasoned designer can struggle beneath the weight of countless options. Design assistance would function to reduce the noise and highlight options well-suited to the data and personalized for the historical preferences of the user, avoiding a ‘kitchen sink’ approach.
Key to this assistance is to avoid low level features, an endless array of tweakable properties that provide no direction, only endless, mind-numbing variations on a theme. The assistance should present workable, “final” options, simplifying adoption and avoiding long learning curves.

Intuiface Design Assistant, a companion feature for API Explorer,
is our first step in making this possible.

A visual layout bound to the properties selected by a user in API Explorer is “intelligently” produced - thanks to adaptive machine learning - in the targeted interactive experience. The overall layout can be rearranged as needed and combined with all other Intuiface design capabilities to produce modern, engaging multi-touch experiences for Windows, iPad, Android, Chrome OS and Samsung SSP devices. At runtime, the visual display will always remain up-to-date, refreshing information acquired via the API on the fly.

Throughout this entire process, the Intuiface user doesn’t write a single line of code despite gaining access to thousands of available Web Services at no additional cost.