User Interfaces, Design, and ... #DeepLearning?

Good #UI design isn’t just about being “user-friendly”, it’s about reifying deep principles about the world, making them the working conditions that users live and create, making explicit, yet comfortable and familiar, becoming part of the user’s patterns of thought.

#MachineLearning can be valuable here — removing vast swathes of cognitive burden to expose these deeper truths. Consider Font Design for example — bolding a font isn’t just about “making it thicker” () — there are a bajillion heuristics that type designers have figured out over the ages, things like “preserve the enclosed negative space”, “move bars lower”, “lag interior strokes to the exterior”, and hundreds more (Thousands? Even more? Quite likely…)

The benefits of using #AI to help is that you can train it on these heuristics, using available fonts, and it will automatically generate the bolded versions for you.
Oh, it won’t be perfect the first time around, but use your corrections as inputs, and, well, you get the picture 

Read on for more on the above, and, more importantly, on how this new aid to Tooling, these new cognitive forms of expression, can fundamentally change how we think and work… — https://distill.pub/2017/aia/