First, something needs to trigger the automation. For automation, we can ignore the psychological aspects and focus mostly on Cue and Response. According to James Clear, the habit cycle is comprised of four steps: Cue, Craving, Response, and Reward. By deploying automation tools at these key moments, we can keep our process on track.īuilding an automation is like building habits, just for computers. Does this involve multiple tools? The moment we switch tools in a task is often the moment when we are more prone to distraction.(That or they completely subsume them.) If we can automate our tedious tasks, that can shorten or eliminate the time it takes to do them. Mundane tasks often take a back seat to the more interesting creative ones on our plate. Is this boring or dread-inspiring? There’s nothing wrong with boredom, but as designers we crave creative fulfillment.Why do something over and over if we can do it once and make it repeatable? The hardest part of choosing whether to automate repetitive tasks is knowing whether building the automation will take more work than just performing the basic action a few times. Is this repetitive? Repetition is one of the key strengths of automation.So how do we know when to automate? Look for some of these when evaluating our work: Instead, we can pick and choose to automate things that are painful or repetitive and find ways to make them automatic. We’re not building a factory where every step of the process is reliant on the one before. The great thing about automation is that we don’t have to do it all at once. They can save us time, mental energy, and unnecessary effort that we can funnel into harder, more creative endeavors. Instead, automation tools can help us automate away much of the boring, painful, or repetitive aspects of our process. Machine learning and automation will not take over our entire creative role-unless designers are only performing at the most basic level.
While there are certainly specific jobs that have been eliminated by automation, the truth is that automation in many industries simplifies or removes mundane tasks and opens up new opportunities for deeper, more rewarding work instead.
For the past few years, the media has often presented automation as a grim future where robots steal the jobs of hardworking people.
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