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Neuromorphic Design – Blurring the Lines Between UI and Reality

In the era of UI/UX design, brands want to create a more comfortable and natural user experience. To do so they take inspiration from the environment and how a human interacts with it. Today many big brands and institutions are investing a huge amount of money just to understand the human brain and how it processes things around it. They are trying to bring real interactions into the digital world minimizing the gap between UI and reality. These types of research and approaches used have given birth to a new concept in UI design i.e. Neuromorphic Design – An approach that connects neural analysis of the brain (neuroscience) with design.



Origin of Neuromorphic Design

Neuromorphic design is based on neuromorphic engineering in which neuroscience principles are used to transform design technology. This approach focuses on understanding the functioning of the human brain and using that knowledge to create design systems that resonate with the neural data accumulated. This data can be used to transform today’s UI design concepts into a more natural or intuitive interaction design.

Today’s UI designs are incorporated with such design elements that resonate with real-world elements in the digital world, for example:-



Tools required to create Neuromorphic Designs

Creating neuromorphic design is a really big challenge as still today it is difficult to create a system that can mimic human brain and can create a full proof data to bring a huge change in UI designing. This design approach is still in its earlier stage. This doesn’t mean that the amount of knowledge we have of our brain’s working is not enough to create Neuromorphic UI designs. We have came really far and created tools that can be used by anyone around the globe to create such design systems. Such as:-

Applications of Neuromorphic Design

Neuromorphic designs is capable of mimicking real world elements in digital world scenarios. This could increase user engagement by creating a feeling of familiarity in the user’s mind. There can be many uses of such designs in the design system. Such as:-

Benefits of Using Neuromorphic Design

Neuromorphic designs principles in UI increases its user experience drastically and makes it interactive. There are several key benefits on taking neuromorphic design approach while creating an UI. Such as:-

Cons of Neuromorphic Designs

Conclusion

When a neuromorphic design is well-executed with an accurate data as a base, it seamlessly blend the digital and real worlds, creating user interfaces that mimic the behavior of the human brain. This offers users an experience i.e. natural, easy to understand and closer to reality. But to achieve these we will have to solve issues of complexity, data privacy and collection issues.


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