Is The Grid a better web designer than you?
Unless you've developed the enviable skill of ignoring adverts on Twitter, you can't have failed to notice The Grid, a new service promising "AI websites that design themselves." The Grid "is not another do-it-yourself website builder," the difference according their site, is that The Grid boasts an advanced AI (artificial intelligence) that can build custom solutions for its clients in mere seconds. I've often heard WYSIWYGs, and more recently website builders, likened to robots replacing human workers on factory production lines; I've yet to hear of a robot making it into the design department. Certainly, there is scope for automation in web design: When once you spent an hour setting up basic stylesheets, now you import a framework; when once you spent a day considering design options, now you choose a design pattern; when once you spent a week coding specific functionality, now you download a plugin. We all want to think of our s...