The prominence of AI in everyday life has been interesting to track, and sometimes it can almost feel like a trend. It’s been a sudden, heavy integration of something new and amazing, and there are elements of it that look and sound just like any other trend.
But the way in which AI has rapidly become embedded into everyday life means that it is more than a trend – it’s a big, permanent, lifestyle upgrade. Because of its utility and incredible function, the interest in it is not going to drop away after this burst of initial attention.
Because it has already been integrated into not only the way people use the internet but into industry too, it is here to stay and evolve.
One of the main areas in which it has become popular is design. This is where AI has been able to flex its muscles and its astonishing powers of creativity to help people express their own. Here are some of the current edge trends to watch for in design, thanks to AI:
The future now
There are many areas of design, from interior design to clothes design and architecture. Game design is another huge sector, with specialists creating fantastic worlds for MMORPG titles, and making online casino rooms and popular slot machine titles such as Sweet Bonanza stand out.
Most thoughts about AI, regardless of the particular field, turn rapidly to the future. Design is often seen as being on the cutting edge of modernity and futurism. It’s common to hear of designers pushing the envelope on new design concepts and aesthetics.
What can AI do for design?
The role of AI in design isn’t to take over. It can forge a wonderful collaboration between person and machine to reach the best creative goal. There is a two-way learning process between designers and AI.
The designer can pick up information and data from AI, while AI at the same time will continue learning from the individual designer, to better adapt and give more appropriate results linked to style and preferences.
It is not about throwing every idea at AI and rolling with whatever results are churned out – it is a far more nuanced and intricate process than that. Whether it is an architect seeing their ideas play out in augmented reality or a designer being able to play with textures, sizes and furniture pieces with a layout in a client’s living room, AI can help.
That interplay between designers and AI is the key to the future of design. Human inspiration is the essential element of creativity. AI, which can model and mimic human creativity, can then be used to enhance the design and creative ideas.
Emerging trends
The data-driven modeling of AI and all its mighty processing powers is also able to spot emerging trends, which can help keep designers ahead of the game. This is an area where AI naturally excels.
It can quickly, efficiently and constructively put together outputs from sets of data. One great potential it has is in scouring through the crowded world of social media to pick out things that are popular or are beginning to trend.
That deep analysis of anything, from a specific material to colors, shapes and sizes, can all be collated to form an idea of what could potentially be a future trend. AI, therefore, can completely model future designs.
Designing software for design
Another big role that AI has to play in design is the actual software being used. There are many mainstream AI products available that can help with the creation of videos, scripts, artwork and business paraphernalia.
Easy-to-use AI software can be a big time and money-saver for designers in this sector. The rapid creation of promotional material, as well as helping to automate and manage social media campaigns, is of great benefit.
The collaboration of AI can also be used to input and tweak the correct phrasing of ad campaigns, and what colors and fonts will best suit the message that is being represented. AI can provide many different ways to execute designs.
It can analyze market trends from diverse data sources, help with branding and even bring collaborators together for projects, through the right software.
There are bigger AI software applications as well, of course. Design software is highly advanced, to help designers quickly get ideas out of their heads and onto some kind of digital platform for safe storage and workflow.
Exciting futures
What could be in the pipeline for design in the near future, thanks to the hand of AI? Augmented reality has already made its way into many areas of design. People can try on clothes virtually, and interior designers can see what a completed design will look like when standing in an empty shell of a room.
A fully immersive 3D world, of course, would be the pinnacle of this. A designer could be fully immersed in a digitally designed world, together with a client, and have the full experience, but also with the power of being able to edit the scene on the fly.
This type of thing can have big environmental impacts as well. Finalizing designs in the virtual world could cut down real-world waste. Whether it’s a clothes designer being able to play with alterations to a garment in AI, or an interior designer swapping the texture of upholstery on a couch, it could save a lot on materials.
Generative AI is a big driver for the future, using the type of computing power that plays off inputs from around it. Talking or taking pictures of something that can inspire a design, and then having AI generate design ideas for that as the base of a design, is huge.
Designing the future
AI is going to shape the future of design. It is already doing so in more ways than it is possible to express. There are massive advantages to be garnered from enjoying the creative dance with AI.
The argument against it would be that it shouldn’t be a decision-making partner. It’s a complex area, but designers design from their sparks of creativity. It’s a unique, amazing and intrinsically human skill.
But, it’s not that AI is supposed to take that away. It’s not there to diminish human creativity, it is there to offer suggestions and provide tools to help conceptualize a project.