Can AI do interface design concept from brief to stakeholder acceptance?
An expert breakdown of a typical process from public sources, worked out by the same rules as your own check.
0 of 10 steps go to an agent
Goes to an agent (0)
An agent does these steps on its own.
No steps here.
AI drafts, a person checks (5)
AI prepares the work; a person reviews and confirms it.
Research: analytics, audit of the current solution, competitors, inputs from user research
AI drafts it and a person checks: AI only drafts part of what it takes.
- Investigating a cause across heterogeneous sources
Information architecture: section map and user flows
AI drafts it and a person checks: AI only drafts part of what it takes.
- Producing a working artifact from a specification
Mood board and visual direction options
AI drafts it and a person checks: AI only drafts part of what it takes.
- Producing a result accepted by a stakeholder's taste and consent
Low-fi wireframes of the key screens
AI drafts it and a person checks: AI only drafts part of what it takes.
- Producing a working artifact from a specification
Hi-fi mock-ups: typography, colour, states, components
AI drafts it and a person checks: AI only drafts part of what it takes.
- Producing a working artifact from a specification
Stays with people (5)
These steps need a person's judgement or presence.
Kick-off session and creative brief: goals, audience, constraints, deadlines
Stays with people: it takes judgement that depends on your business context.
- Open-ended dialogue with an external party
Design critique inside the team: presentation of the solution, gathering and recording of comments
Stays with people: it takes judgement that depends on your business context.
- Consolidating people's contributions and resolving priority conflicts
Presentation of the mock-ups to the stakeholders with the reasoning behind the decisions
Stays with people: it takes judgement that depends on your business context.
- Open-ended dialogue with an external party
Revision rounds: consolidating comments from different stakeholders, prioritising, reworking
Stays with people: it takes judgement that depends on your business context.
- Consolidating people's contributions and resolving priority conflicts
Handover to development: specifications, assets, components, walkthrough with the developers
Stays with people: it takes judgement that depends on your business context.
- Consolidating people's contributions and resolving priority conflicts
2 steps outside what AI can work on
Physical work, or nothing AI could apply itself to. These steps count in no figure.
Choice of the visual direction by the client
Nothing in this step is work AI could apply itself to.
Approval of the mock-ups by the client or the head of the unit
Nothing in this step is work AI could apply itself to.
Sources
- gov.uk · Regulator
- web.tamu.edu · Research
- marcom.arizona.edu · Research
- nngroup.com · Consulting
- cliquestudios.com · Consulting
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