This Startup Uses Machine Learning To Turn UI Designs Into Raw Code

Translating design into code can be tedious and not particularly thought-provoking--which also happens to be the criteria that makes a task ripe for automation. The Copenhagen-based startup UIzard Technologies is already on it: The company has trained a neural network to take a screenshot of a graphic interface and translate it into lines of code, effectively eliminating that part of the web design process for developers. Impressively, the same model works across iOS, Android, and web-based interfaces, and at this early point in the research the algorithm works with 77% accuracy. Last week, Tony Beltramelli, the founder and CEO of UIzard Technologies published a research paper on how the model, called Pix2Code works. The gist is this: Like all machine learning, the researchers had to train the model on examples of the task at hand.