The world has become obsessed with visual communications, and the lack of design skills might still constitute a bottleneck to the easy flow of creative ideas from the non-designer camp. AutoDraw (an experiment by Google’s Creative Lab) is the barrier breaker, offering a simple, smart, and free tool for the quick sketching of an idea. As far as I understand it, AutoDraw is an AI drawing assistant that makes a guess of what you probably want to draw and it gives you a choice of neat, professionally made illustrations that you can substitute over the one you did. Moreover, it employs a machine learning approach that has taken on the task of one million sketches thus hinting to be a great friend to students, teachers, content creators and so on.

AutoDraw has a unique selling feature – its user experience is sublime and effortless. There is no need for a login; everything is so simple that everybody can easily get used to it, and it is quickly accessible on the web by simply typing in the website address and drawing away. While you draw, the AI recommendation is made to you at the top of the screen, from which you can quickly select and paste the required illustration. What is more, this procedure is not only timesaving but it also gives the users an opportunity to convey their concepts visually and thus gain their confidence. AutoDraw is a manifestation of the AI technology’s potential to serve nature’s creativity, which ironically makes it tell “I am not a bad drawer” instead of “I am an artist”.