How do you enable people to easily design beautiful mobile and web apps when they have no design background?

“Easy: you just throw some neural networks at the problem!”

“Well, kinda”

You might have heard of Uizard already through our early machine learning research pix2code or our technology for turning hand-drawn sketches into interactive app prototypes.

Today, I would like to talk about one of our new AI-driven features: automatic theme generation.

Design is hard for non-designers

Over time and throughout our private beta program, the majority of our recurrent active users started to increasingly become startup founders, product managers, consultants, business analysts, and marketing…

Today, in 2019, sketching by hand is still the most common method for brainstorming and ideation when working on a new website or a mobile app. Even Google advocates for paper prototyping to quickly visualize ideas.

This ideation process is often referred to as design sprint or product discovery depending on the organization. Google Ventures (GV), the venture capital arm of Alphabet has laid down the process as a 5 days sprint that is today implemented in various types of companies including startups, web design agencies, and large enterprises. …

This entry in our research page is more of a blog post rather than an actual research work; the goal being to share what we are working on and why we are doing it.

TL;DR: bring me to the sneak peek.

1) Building apps and websites is insanely slow

Back when I was an undergraduate student, I used to work part-time as a front-end developer in a digital agency. I was fortunate enough to be part of a team made of extremely talented people with art directors and UI/UX designers crafting gorgeous interfaces and creative front-end engineers building cutting-edge applications using the latest technologies (remember when WebGL was…